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Iranian border guards gun down one, wound six more
SULAIMANI — At least one kolbar (porter) or tradesman was killed and six others were wounded by direct fire by the Iranian security forces in the border areas of the Iranian Kurdistan in January 2021, a watchdog said on Monday (February 1).Gotta pay the Forty-seven percent of the total fifteen casualties was killed and wounded by direct fire from the Iranian armed forces, Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, which reports on human rights biases, said in its monthly report, adding that there were the same percent of casualties from natural incidents. Another Kolbar lost his life due to a heart failure, according to the watchdog. There were six cases in Kurdistan Province’s Sanandaj, five in west Azerbaijan and four in Kermanshah, it added. At least 59 Kolbars died and 179 others were injured in 2020, most of whom were shot by the Iranian or Turkish armed forces, Hengaw said in its end-year report on December. Kolbars are Kurdish porters who brave mountains passes carrying goods between Iran, Iraq, and Turkey.
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