TIME Asia: Year in Pictures: A Long, Hard Road

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A Crying Shame
Violence during Kashmir's elections claimed some 800 lives, including that of a young woman whose family is seen here mourning her death. But the polls also proved to be the fairest in the state's turbulent history. For the first time, Kashmir has a government with a mandate to negotiate for autonomy with New Delhi. Kashmiris exhausted by death and suffering find peace is now more than an unlikely dream

Photograph by Ami Vitale—Getty Images

FROM THE DEC 30, 2002 - JAN 6, 2003 ISSUE OF TIME MAGAZINE; POSTED MONDAY, DEC 23, 2002