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    "Border Couriers"... A Story of Direct Executions of "Porters" Transporting Goods between Iraq and I

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    Alsumaria News - International

    Human Rights Watch revealed the escalation of shootings and the use of lethal force by Iranian forces against what are known as "border messengers", or what are known as "human mules" who transport goods on their backs between Iraq and Iran, the majority of whom are Kurds, as this is the only profession they work in to earn their living.


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    The organization says that the Iranian authorities have long suppressed and marginalized Kurdish communities, and high unemployment and poverty rates are among the main motivations that push people to work as border reporters, legally or illegally, which is physically demanding and dangerous work.



    The United for [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] human rights group says border reporters are mostly men and boys aged 13 to 65, but they also include some women. Iranian authorities have claimed to use force to stop smuggling but have also said they want to regulate the economic activities of border reporters more broadly rather than violently suppress them.

    In 2023, [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] reportedly shot 507 Kurds transporting goods to [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], killing 44 of them, according to the human rights group United for [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]. Since the beginning of this year, 111 Kurds have been shot at the border for the same reason.

    “Kurdish border couriers, known in Kurdish and Persian as kolbars, have limited access to justice,” said Mahmoud Amiri-Moghaddam, director of the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]-based [url=https://www.alsumaria.tv/entity/3573307159/%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B8%D9%85%D8%A9 %D8%AD%D9%82%D9%88%D9%82 %D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86 %D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9/ar/]Iranian Human Rights Organization[/url]. “When guards see them, they shoot them. We hear about people who have been killed, but there are also people who have lost limbs, who have been paralyzed with spinal cord injuries.”

    Many are boys as young as 13, but others are highly educated men and women, some as old as 77, who rely on carrying heavy loads of goods across dangerous mountainous terrain as a means of survival, said Shaghayegh Norouzi of United for [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.].

    Between October 2021 and April 2024, [url=https://www.alsumaria.tv/entity/118682/%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85%D9%86 %D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B3 %D9%88%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B4/ar/]Human Rights Watch[/url] interviewed 13 Kurdish border workers who survived and witnessed Iranian security forces using excessive and lethal force or relatives of victims. Witnesses said that [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]’s Border Guard Force and the [url=https://www.alsumaria.tv/entity/137439/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%B3 %D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A %D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A/ar/]Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps[/url] were among the units that targeted border workers with force. Fatal.

    The documented incidents occurred along the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] --[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] border areas in the Iranian provinces of Kermanshah and West [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]. All 13 people were Kurds, and interviewees described incidents that occurred between 2014 and 2023.

    Six interviewees said that Iranian security forces targeted and shot them, and that they witnessed others being shot, and two said that Iranian security forces shot and killed their relatives who worked as cross-border delivery people, and one lost a leg after stepping on a landmine.
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