nepa~laya asked photographers and journalists to submit pictures they had taken of the past ten years of conflict. This book is a collection of 172 of the most outstanding among the 3,000 or so images submitted by photographers and journalists for this book. They are portraits of a country in pain. But the faces also tell a story of survival, hope and the triumph of the human spirit. Despite all odds, citizens struggled for peace and democracy and won. This is our story told in pictures taken by 80 photographers.