Tag Archives: Kolberi
Narration of Shahriyar Mohammadpour from Kolberi to membership in PJAK Sect
In 2018, Shahriyar Mohammadpour was working as a Kolberi, but one day he lost his way and got lost in the mountains. According to the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch, one of the main reasons for the membership of Iranian Kurdish young people in armed groups such as PJAK is poverty and unemployment in the […]
Do not leave our Kolbers alone in the winter!!
It is heartbreaking to hear the disturbing news of the fate of kolbers who disappear or are killed in the cold of winter. Recently, we saw that three Kurdish kolbers were missing in the Binar Valley, and that snow and blizzards prevented them from being searched after, which means that the plight of the Kurdish […]
Kurdish smugglers and the Iranian-Iraqi border trade full of dangers
“Kolberi” It is winter in Piranshahr, Iran. At the foot of the snow-capped mountains, a long row of dots are visible, slowly moving towards Haji Omran, a Kurdish-Iraqi border town. Dozens of men gather at a rally point, pulling heavy loads from Iranian pick-up trucks “Paykan Bar” and old blue Nissan jeeps onto their backs. […]