Topic Summary (from en.wikipedia.org): . 'Dith Pran, a photojournalist for The New York Times whose gruesome ordeal in the killing fields of Cambodia was re-created in a 1984 movie that gave him an eminence he tenaciously used to press for his people s rights, died on Sunday at a hospital in New Brunswick, N.J. He was 65 and lived in Woodbridge, N.J.'

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• Dith Pran: The domain dithpran.org may be for sale by its owner! (from www.dithpran.org)
• Killing Fields: Nicknamed Killing Fields , these were distinguished from the nearby ground by the fact that the grass was greenest over them. (from www.notablebiographies.com)
• New York Times: Dith Pran, a photojournalist for The New York Times whose gruesome ordeal in the killing fields of Cambodia was re-created in a 1984 movie that gave him an eminence he tenaciously used to press for his people s rights, died on Sunday at a hospital in New Brunswick, N.J (from www.nytimes.com)
• Khmer Rouge: Nearly two million Cambodians were killed by the Khmer Rouge , but the rest of the world remained silent (from www.notablebiographies.com)
• Phnom Penh: In 1975, Pran and New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg stayed behind in Cambodia to cover the fall of the capital Phnom Penh to the communist Khmer Rouge forces (from www.charlierose.com)
• New York: As a guide and interpreter working with members of the United States media in his country during the early 1970s, Pran got to know New York Times journalist Sydney Schanberg (from www.answers.com)
• Cambodian Genocide: Dith Pran is a photojournalist best known as a refugee and Cambodian Genocide survivor and was the subject of the Academy Award-winning film The Killing Fields (from www.charlierose.com)
• Sydney Schanberg: But Sydney Schanberg did not forget (from www.notablebiographies.com)
• United States: Having withdrawn from Southeast Asia, the United States had turned its attention to other issues, and there were few protests of the Khmer Rouge killings (from www.notablebiographies.com)
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• four years: Schanberg would return to the U.S., where he earned a Pulitzer Prize for his work on Cambodia, but Pran would be forced to stay behind, victim of the madness that swept his country for four years (from www.answers.com)

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