- Dith Pran: 1942 - 2008
Dith Pran, photojournalist for The New York Times and subject of the 1984 film “The Killing Fields
” died in New Brunswick, N.J. on Sunday at the age of 65.
“Mr. Dith saw his country descend into a living hell as he scraped and scrambled to survive the barbarous revolutionary regime of the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1979, when as many as two million Cambodians — a third of the population — were killed, experts estimate. Mr. Dith survived through nimbleness, guile and sheer desperation.”
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