Nepalese election workers carry ballot boxes on the back of a vehicle at Janakpur in the Terai region of Nepal April 9, 2008. Many streets of southeastern Nepal were deserted on Wednesday, as activists waved black flags and burnt tyres to enforce a strike aimed at disrupting the country's first election in nine years. But many people in the plains of the Terai, Nepal's agricultural and industrial heartland and home to half its population, said they were determined to vote anyway despite a boycott from armed groups and smaller radical parties. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri (NEPAL)