P03258.288 Accession Number: P03258.288

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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.

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Accession Number
P03258.288
Maker
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Format: 35mm
Support: Acetate
Date Made
1993
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor H Smith
Copyright
AWM copyright

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