On 10 April 2008, Nepali voters lined up from dawn for a Constituent Assembly election. Reuters described the vote as the centrepiece of the 2006 peace agreement that ended a decade-long conflict and brought Maoist guerrillas into legitimate party politics.
What distinguishes this queue is that voters were not only choosing representatives. They were placing former parties to war inside the same electoral procedure. The line stood at a boundary between armed conflict and a process for writing a new constitution.