A Cambodian-born US journalist whose enslavement and escape from the Khmer Rouge became the subject of the famous film, The Killing Fields, has died.
Dith Pran died at a hospital in New Jersey from pancreatic cancer at the age of 65, according to his former New York Times colleague, Sydney Schanberg.
They were in Cambodia in 1975 to report the fall of Phnom Penh to Khmer forces.
Mr. Dith was not allowed to leave, and had to endure four years of torture and starvation before escaping to Thailand.
In 1980, Mr. Schanberg described his colleague's ordeal in a magazine article, and later a book, called "The Death and Life of Dith Pran". It became the basis for the Oscar-winning Hollywood film, The Killing Fields.
Pran was a true reporter, a fighter for the truth and for his people!
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