The Death and Life of Dith Pran

The US journalist's account of his colleague's struggle to survive the Cambodian genocide—the basis for the Oscar–winning film The Killing Fields.

On April 17, 1975, Khmer Rouge soldiers seized Phnom Penh—the capital of Cambodia—and began a brutal genocide that left millions dead. Dith Pran, a Cambodian working as an assistant to American reporter Sydney H. Schanberg, was a witness to these events. While his employer managed to escape across the border, Dith Pran fled into the Cambodian c...