The Kandakolen Massacre is the largest incident of casualties by Turkish military operations. Turkish fighter jets bombed a nomadic encampment in Kandakolen of the Sidakan subdistrict, killing 30 civilians and injuring 14. In the incident, 15 children were killed and 9 were injured. Two pregnant women were also killed, with one of the women in labor when she was killed. The fighter jets did not bomb just once; they circled back to the encampment, bombing it twice. Survivors of the attack also witnessed two helicopters pouring acid onto the encampment after it was bombed, a scene of unimaginable suffering. 

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Sharmin, Mam Ali and their whole family decided to move to the bigger town of Sidakan. Here they thought they would be safe from the bombardments which plagued their ancestral home. In October 2022, when Sharmin travelled to the mountains to visit here relatives, another bombardment would strike.

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CPT-IK and our partners at Shar Press are pleased to present a new collaborative documentary, 'A Bombardment Between Two Rivers'. The film interviews victims and family members impacted by an Iranian bombardment that left 21 people dead in Qaladze, Iraqi Kurdistan, on August 6, 1994.

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