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Dith Pran, photojournalist (The Killing Fields)

2008-03-30

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 peoples 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. . . .

Slide show of Mr. Dith at the NYT site here. Mr. Dith, after coming to the U.S., worked as a NYT photojournalist, and a few of his photos are presented. Number 16 in the series is a recent photo of him. He had quite an eye as a photographer, and he's a genuine hero.

Posted by:Mike

#1 This guy was a real hero.
Too bad the MSM and the movie industry tried to play the killing fields as a surprise and the fault of the US.
Everyone knew in the late 60's and early 70's that Pol Pot's view of communism was very very far out there.
As far as the killing fields were concerned, even the National Geographic commented on the forced evacuation of Phenom Phen by the Khmer Rouge. The French, the Germans, the Brits and our own diplomats knew what was happening and the media wanted to ignore it. They had glamorized the Khmer Rouge and the Viet Cong for so long they just could not say anything negative about their little "revolutionary chic" darlings.

Another failure of objectivity by the media when the truth would have saved millions.

Dith Pran was a hero and should be remembered as a man who tried for years to get those mass murders publicized.

Posted by: Sock Puppet of Texas 2008-03-30 11:22

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