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July 23, 2003

Young Cambodians rock the vote

Young Cambodians rock the vote | csmonitor.com

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Whether for demonstrations against garment-factory conditions or to raise teachers' salaries, protest organizers look to youths for nearly all their support. When election monitoring groups appealed for local observers to fill their ranks, the response was almost exclusively from this younger generation.

"They are a strong force," says Koul Panha, executive directorof the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia. ...

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"They go to study in Phnom Penh and when they come back, they are educating their family," says Mr. Panha. "The son or daughter of a peasant farmer comes back and asks why they're not fighting corruption."

"It wasn't like that before," he says. "They didn't even see it as corruption."

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National Election Committee statistics estimate that more than one-third of some 6.3 million people who will vote in the upcoming election are 30 or under. And the number of teens coming of voting age is only expected to increase, with more than 60 percent of the total population age 24 or under, according to a recent UN Population Fund report.

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