Another Kurdish kolber shot dead by Iranian forces

Iranian regime forces have once again attacked the kolbers, cross-border porters working for daily wage, at the border between Rojhilat (East) and Bakûr (North) Kurdistan.

Iranian regime forces have killed another Kurdish kolber at the border between Rojhilat (East) and Bakûr (North) Kurdistan on June 22.

According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network, 32 years old Kurdish man Murad Arabi was shot dead by Iranian border forces at Rojhilat-Bakûr border. The man from Ebne village of Orumiyeh was married and father of two.

On Wednesday, 15 June a group of Kolber was shot by Iran’s border forces in the Betush area in the outskirts of Sardasht and a kolber named Sirwan Azizi from Doltanchak village of Sardasht killed on the spot. Sirwan Azizi, who was carrying several cartons of cigarettes was shot at close range by military forces. Then, the border guards escaped and left his corpse in the mountains. His dead body was later transferred to Sardasht Forensic Medicine by Kolbars and the locals.

According to statistics compiled by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, the city of Sardasht was the most deadliest region of Kurdistan with 18 deaths and wounded Kolber workers in 2016 and the number of Kolbers who lose their lives are increasing every year due to the failure of Iran government to prosecute military forces who are committing murder.