In May 1993, general elections were held in Cambodia. Voter turnout was 89.56 percent.
People who don¡¯t have democracy want it ¡ª very badly. Traumatized by 30 years of war, genocide, dictatorship, hunger ¡ª just about every evil into which a state can sink ¡ª Cambodians swarmed polling stations to elect, under U.N. auspices, a postwar government.
A measure of their eagerness is the obstacles they had to defy. Poor transportation was the least of them.
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