Kolbar Fatally Shot at by Iranian Border Forces

Hengaw: Thursday, April 18, 2024

Saivan Dastafkan, a Kolbar from Marivan, was killed in a direct shooting by border regiment forces while transporting goods in the heights of “Gardaneh-ye Tah Tah” in Sarvabad county, Kurdistan (Sanandaj) province.

According to a report obtained by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, border regiment forces opened fire on a group of Kolbars in the mountain heights of “Gardaneh-ye Tah Tah,” resulting in the death of the 35-year-old Kolbar Saivan Dastafkan.

Hengaw sources report that the border regiment forces fired at the Kolbars without warning and from close range.

Saivan Dastafkan, a married man and father of one, was from the village of “Darreh Peyman” in Marivan, Kurdistan province.