One of the sorriest chapters of modern human history were the Killing Fields of Cambodia. Awful enough that 2 million people were murdered in a country as small as Cambodia, the double tragedy was that merely a half century after the Nazis the Khmer Rouge showed that genocide coul dindeed happen again. Not many years later Rwanda proved it again.
Dith Pran was the Cambodian man whose reporting, along with Sydney Schanberg of the New York Times, became the basis for the movie The Killing Fields. I remember seeing it nd being emotionally decimated by the tragedy and the evil.
[Schanberg and Dith] 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.
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