soc.culture.cambodia

Journalist Dith Pran dies of cancer
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NEW YORK - The journalist whose enslavement and escape from Cambodia's
murderous revolutionaries was the subject of the movie "The Killing
Fields" has died.

Dith Pran's death from pancreatic cancer was confirmed Sunday by
journalist Sydney Schanberg, his former colleague at The New York
Times. Pran was 65.

Dith worked as a photographer for The New York Times after his escape
from the Khmer Rouge (kuh-MEER roojh) in 1979. He also became a
goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees.

Dith spoke and wrote often about his wartime experience and remained
an outspoken critic of the Khmer Rouge regime.