srinagar, 30.05.2009
the boy died on tuesday due to his injuries from last friday. i was on the way to kupwara, the last "town" before the border to pakistan when i got the news. i rushed back to shoot the funeral, but at the time i arrived at the martyr's graveyard the body was already buried and only a crowd of azadi-shouting kashmiris was left. no reason to shoot that again, i think i already have thousands of pictures of shouting and screaming boys and men. it's what you see here almost everyday and though it's still fun to shoot is from time to time it's getting more and more boring.
yesterday i spent some time with the mourning family and followed the procession to the graveyard, part of a muslim religious ritual which always takes place on the 4th day after the funeral...again and again, so much suffering, so much screaming, so many tears...
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