Dith Pran, 'Killing Fields" Photographer, Dies at 65

[Stuart G]

Source: New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/31/nyregion/31dith.html?hp

Dith Pran, ‘Killing Fields’ Photographer, Dies at 65



By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Published: March 31, 2008


The cause was pancreatic cancer, which had spread, said his friend Sydney H. Schanberg.
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.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/31/nyregion/31dith.html?hp

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He showed us again..., Man's Inhumanity To Man....

............. On this quiet Sunday morning..
................I ask, "Will it ever stop?"

[stop the bleeding]

1. RIP nt

[Mika]

2. The Cambodian actor who portrayed him, Haing S. Ngor, was murdered in 1996 in LA, California.

Biography for Haing S. Ngor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0628955/bio



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[Herman74]

3. He's the one who came up with the phrase, "The Killing Fields."

His death is sad, but let us be guided by how he lived.

[OzarkDem]

10. At least he was able to enjoy years of freedom here

though that is not enough to compensate for what he and his family endured.

Great man, great talent. RIP.

[Stuart G]

4. I had an experience with.. The Killing Felds..

It was in the mid eighties. I had been transferred to a culturally diverse school a couple of years earlier. I was teaching a section on the Holocaust and the class had ended. We were talking about this killing of innocent people for no reason....

A young man came up with a couple of friends. He told me that when he was in Cambodia as a young boy, he and his mother jumped out the back window of their house when the Khmer Rouge came in and killed his father.

[bluesmail]

5. yes RIP you have been through much

[Botany]

6. Dith Pran told the world about "The Killing Fields.'

R.I.P. Mr. Pran

[Maat]

7. May he rest in peace.

He certainly deserves an eternity of peace.

[uppityperson]

8. k&r

[selador]

9. i had a classmate

in the police acadmey who had survived the killing fields.

he had some horrific stories to tell.

[blogslut]

11. Damn

Rest in Peace, sir.