- Dith Pran: 1942 - 2008

Dith Pran, Born 1942, Died 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.

From The New York Times:

“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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