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Iran admits its border guards killed five Kurdish porters in reply to UN experts

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Iran's High Council for Human Rights replied to three UN special rapporteurs and defended the shootings, which took place in July and August. Rights groups identify the five dead men as Kurdish border porters, known as kolbars, and Rudaw reported the reply on Monday.

Kolbars are Kurdish porters who carry goods by hand across the mountainous border between Iran and Iraq's Kurdistan Region, a livelihood that rights groups say has long been dangerous.

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