An ethnic minority Sri Lankan Tamil shop

An ethnic minority Sri Lankan Tamil shopkeeper counts a wad of currency notes in Vavuniya, some 290 kms north of capital Colombo on January 25, 2010. War-scarred Sri Lanka holds a peace-time presidential election January 26, after a bitter and highly personal campaign between the architects of the crushing of an almost four-decade-long insurgency that left between 80,000 and 100,000 people dead, according to UN estimates. Sri Lanka's election this week features two men who emerged victorious on the battlefield of a civil war, but have since become bitter political enemies. President Mahinda Rajapakse, a veteran streetfighter politician who entered parliament aged 24, is taking on his former army chief Sarath Fonseka, a political novice who stepped down last year after being sidelined. AFP PHOTO/Indranil MUKHERJEE (Photo credit should read INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP via Getty Images)