Sri Lankan women carry their voter ident

Sri Lankan women carry their voter identity cards as they queue to exercise their franchise at a polling station in Valachchenai on March 10, 2008. Residents in the Batticaloa district went to vote in the first local elections for some fourteen years, after the goverment secured the island's east from Tamil Tiger rebels in 2007. Local rights activists do not expect the vote to be free and fair as the government has failed to disarm rival rebel groups who are seeking election to run the district's local affairs. AFP PHOTO/Lakruwan WANNIARACHCHI (Photo credit should read LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP via Getty Images)