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Kashmir protest
by Kash GT
Women are protesting against the atrocities committed by Indian soldiers.In this occasion they were standing at the entrance of a park to protest the murder of a greengrocer and to block the path of soldiers who were trying to stop the ceremony. Torture is widely practised in Kashmir as a means of extracting information from detainees, coercing confessions, punishing persons believed sympathetic to the militants and creating a climate of political repression.Torture include severe methods, which include the psico-torture: soldiers rape the detainee’s wife in front of his eyes Kashmir, April 1994
Photographer
Gabrielle Torsello, better known to his colleagues as Kash GT, is a 36 year-old Italian photojournalist. He moved to London some fourteen years ago and has a wife Sylvia and a son Gabrielle now aged four.
Kash has spent a great deal of his time in strife-riven areas of the world, Kashmir and Afghanistan specifically. The photographs he has taken have gone a long way to showing the rest of the world the difficulties that the people there have been exposed to by continual conflict.
His book ‘The Heart of Kashmir’ published in 2003 has been very well received, and he was so in sympathy with the region that he chose to take the name Kash. He converted to Islam, and has since then spent time in Afghanistan.
On his most recent visit to Afghanistan gunmen abducted him in Helmand Province.
For more of Kash GT's work, see: www.kashgt.co.uk
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