1/ #Kolbar means ‘transborder porters’ in #Kurdish. Thousands of impoverished Kurds engage in this deadly trade. What usually kills Kolbars though is not Kurdistan's treacherous mountains, normally seen as Kurds’ only friends but Iranian border-guards .. ⬇️

#Stop_Killing_Kolbars
2/ ... who for years have been practicing a policy of shoot-on-sight against Kolbars. Since June 2015 more than 900 Kolbars have bene killed or injured by Iran's armed & security forces, which consider Kolbari ‘illegal’. ⬇️

#Stop_Killing_Kolbars

#کولبر_نکشید
3/ Kolbar's body has become ‘The’ site for the deadly intersection of the racist and capitalist violence of the Islamic Republic of #Iran ( #IRI). There is little coverage of the deadly daily state-terrorism practiced on Kurdish Kolbars.

#Stop_Killing_Kolbars

#کولبر_نکشید
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