A Sri Lankan police officer stands guard as ethnic Tamil voters leave a polling station after casting their votes in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012. Sri Lankans voted Saturday in a provincial assembly election seen as a test of whether minority ethnic Tamils still want self-rule or are content with the government's development of an area devastated by a quarter-century civil war. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)