Description
Australian journalist Marje Prior (left) interviews a staff member of the Electoral Component of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) in the Component's Phnom Penh headquarters. She is one of 280 Cambodian staff employed to process voter registration cards on a Khmer language computer database set up by the component. The role assumed by UNTAC of organising and conducting a national election was a first for the UN. Registration itself was a huge task, but of the country's four and three quarter million eligible voters, almost one hundred percent registered - an achievement that surprised UNTAC's critics, given the amount of political intimidation experienced.
Details
Accession Number
P03258.288
Classification
Photograph
Physical Description
Format: 35mm
Support: Acetate
Credit Line
Donor H Smith
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