Farhad Khosrawi, a Kurdish teenager who had to resort to cross-border semi-legal transporting to help his family buried along with his older brother on Friday with the attendance of hundreds of protesters in the city of Mariwan.
The 14-years-old Khosrawi and his brother Azad Khosrawi were lost in snow earlier this week in the mountainous border area in the Kurdish city of Mariwan.
The dead body of his brother was found four days ago.
Thousands of people were searching for the younger brother until Friday morning, when his dead body was finally found in the snow after days of searching.
Shouting “death to dictator” people of Mariwan once again expressed their anger over discrimination, poverty, and luck of job opportunities in the Kurdish region especially in the border towns and cities.
Unemployment and poverty often drive locals including women and children to take up the very dangerous and low-paid work.
They risk their lives carrying heavy loads on their backs across the rugged and snow-capped mountain border with the Kurdistan Region.
The area is also covered with landmines and other explosive left since the Iran-Iraq War in 1980-88. The Kurdish kolbars also risk coming under fire from Iranian security forces. Tens were shot to death this year.
