Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Two civilian Kurdish have been severely injured by land mine explosions in villages near the cities of Mariwan and Boukan in the past two weeks according to sources that spoke to Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). "A 23 year old man called Karzan was severely wounded in a land mine explosion in the border village of Sardoosh near Mariwan on 13 November 2016. The mine...

By Issa Bazyar, a specialist in mine clearance and unexploded ordnances. The Islamic Republic of Iran has been trying to clear itself from responsibility of the increase of deadly mine explosions that keeps claiming lives of innocent civilians in the country’s Kurdistan region. In the latest of such incidents a mine blast stolen the life of an innocent child in the Kurdish region, which exposed the...

Landmines have killed three and seriously wounded four civilians in the Kurdish region of Iran in one month alone. Two of the three killed victims were brothers from the Sardasht area, and the other killed victim was from the Kermanshah Province. They were killed in an area that was supposed to have undergone complete demining by the Iranian authorities. The army had planted the...

Following publication of a series of stories about victims of land mines, KHRN below publishes the story of another Kurdish citizen Jalil Dudkanloo, who lost both of his eyes and hands to a land mine explosion when he was a ten-year-old child. After its foundation following a revolution in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran began to establish military bases in the cities, towns and...

The report below contains witness accounts of landmine explosions and the tragic consequences of such deadly incidents in Iran’s Kurdistan region. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) will every other week publish reports on victims of landmine explosions in cooperation with Isa Baziyar, a former landmine defuser turned activist to document the living conditions of surviving victims of landmine explosions. The aim of publishing these report is...

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child held its 71st session from 1 to 29 January 2016 in Geneva. The Islamic Republic of Iran was the first country to be heard by the committee on 11 January. The experts of the committee had many questions to ask to the Iranian delegation but many remained unanswered. “What do you do concretely for children wounded by mine...