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Dith Pran, ?Killing Fields? Photographer, Dies at 65

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

March 31, 2008 Dith Pran, ?Killing Fields? Photographer, Dies at 65 By DOUGLAS MARTIN NY Times Dith Pran, a photojournalist for The New York Times whose gruesome ordeal in the killing fields of Cambodia was re-created in a 1984 movie that gave him an eminence he tenaciously used to press for his people?s rights, died in New Brunswick, N.J., on Sunday. He was 65 and lived in Woodbridge, N.J. 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...continue to full post

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