KILLING FIELDS SUBJECT DIES
The photojournalist who inspired the Oscar-winning 1984 movie THE KILLING FIELDS has died at the age of 65.
Dith Pran survived the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s, while working as a translator and reporter for The New York Times.
He became the subject of the Roland Joffe movie, which won three Academy Awards, about the Khmer Rouge regime in the south-east Asian country.
Pran died on Sunday night (30Mar08) in a New Jersey hospital, just months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
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