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At least 11 Kolbers have been killed, injured or disappeared in the past week

09:53 - 18/1/2022

At least 11 Kolbers have been killed, injured or disappeared in the past week

According to a report by Hana Human Rights colleagues; In the past few days, at least 11 border portes known as Kolber have lost their lives or been injured.

According to this report, last Friday, a 24-year-old Kolber with the identity of "Mehran Rahmani" from the village of "Manijlan" from the city of "Baneh" was killed by direct fire of the Border Regiment forces and also in the border of Baneh 3 other Kolbers Named "Osman Rasouli, Hawari Ahmadi and Ebrahim Rahmani",  were wounded by direct fire from the Border Regiment.

According to this report, on the Nosud border, a Kolber named "Hatamullah Veisi" from Javanrood, Mohammad Mohammadi, a resident of Ravansar, and another Kolber from "Sarpol-e Zahab" fell from a height after being chased by police and were wounded. According to the report of Hana's colleagues: two other Kolber identified as "Osman Mohammadi" from the city of "Thalas Babajani" and "Mansour Sahraei" from the city of "Javanrood" were injured by a mine explosion at the border of "Nosud". In the continuation of this report, it is stated that on ( January 11, 2022) , also 3 Kolbers with the identity of "Behlool Seydanifar, Barzan Mahini and Asad Seydanifar" from the village of "Bavan" from the "Margur" area of ​​"Urmia" city in Returns from the Turkish border to Iran were lost due to snow and blizzards, and efforts to find them have so far been unsuccessful.

Systematic poverty and unemployment in the Kurdish region are among the factors forcing Kurdish citizens in the border areas to work inhumanely and at high risk to provide food for their families and children.