After 20 years of a war that encompassed genocide,
 widespread destruction and the collapse of civil society,
 Cambodia in 1993 finally initiated a process aimed at
 establishing democracy. In Isabelle Abric’s
 documentary, narrator William Shawcross - a veteran
 UK reporter on Cambodian affairs - explores the climate
 of fear that over-shadowed the campaign. Khmer Rouge
 guerrillas claimed that "to vote would be to commit
 suicide". Both Cambodians and United Nations
 volunteers were murdered. But the authorities fought
 back - ingeniously using television and radio soap
 operas to reassure Cambodians that it was safe to vote,
 and that only by voting would they ensure democracy.
 The strategy triumphed when over 90 per cent of the
 electorate voted, and, the film claims, the Khmer Rouge
 were driven into exile.
                 
   

 From Globalvision’s innovative and wide-ranging
 human rights series, TVE is distributing the following
 three programmes at cost price. CHILD LABOUR
 reports from Pakistan and elsewhere on the millions of
 child workers systematically abused, despite
 international treaties drawn up to protect their rights.
 HUMAN RIGHTS IN ASIA marks the sixth anniversary
 of Tiananmen Square and the 20th anniversary of the
 end of the Vietnam War by reviving the debate about
 human rights in Asia. And HUMAN RIGHTS
 PROGRESS IN SOUTH AFRICA examines that
 country’s difficult journey towards its objectives in the
 year following democratic elections.