Dith Pran

Dith Pran
Born(1942-09-27)27 September 1942
Siem Reap, Cambodia
Died30 March 2008(2008-03-30) (aged 65)
New Brunswick, New Jersey
EmployerThe New York Times
Known forThe Killing Fields

Dith Pran (Khmer: ឌិត ប្រន; September 27, 1942 – March 30, 2008) was a Cambodian photojournalist. He was best known as a refugee and survivor of the Cambodian genocide.

Death

Pran died on March 30, 2008 in New Brunswick, New Jersey from pancreatic cancer, aged 65.

References

  1. ↑ Pyle, Richard (March 31, 2008). ""Killing Fields" survivor Dith Pran dies". The Associated Press. Archived from the original on April 10, 2008. Retrieved August 31, 2017. Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country's murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the award-winning film "The Killing Fields," died Sunday. He was 65.