Iranian border guards have opened fire on and killed a kolbar named Vahed Mohammadpour on 26 June in the Dolabi region of Sardasht, in West Azerbaijan province.
In the last 10 days alone, Iranian and Turkish border forces have killed five kolbars in Iran’s border areas with Turkey and Iraq.
On the evening of 26 June, military forces of the Soura Gwezh outpost in Sardasht targeted a group of kolbars “from a close range” and “without prior warning”, killing Mohammadpour at the spot, a source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).
According to this source, the people of the area have taken the kolbars body, which was shot once in the back, to the department of forensic medicine in Sardasht.
The kolbar has been buried in the Boyuran village of Sardasht afterwards.
Vahed Mohammadpour, born in 1985, was a resident of Sardasht and the father of three.
He had turned to carry goods as a kolbar in the past years in the border areas of Sardasht due to unemployment in the region.
The killing of kolbars and border traders by the military forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran has become “a daily thing”, said the source. “The killing of kolbars continues due to the lack of prosecution of these forces”.
According to statistics compiled by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, at least seven Kurdish kolbars lost their lives from mid-May to mid-June in the border areas of the provinces of West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, and Kermanshah.
One kolbar lost his life due to a heart attack, and one died of falling from border heights. Moreover, Iranian border guards killed three, and Turkish and Iraqi forces killed two.
Also, during this period, 10 other Kurdish kolbars were injured and disabled due to the shootings of the Iranian and Turkish border forces.
