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'Killing Fields' Survivor Dith Pran Dies
ABC News - AP ^ | Mar 30, 2008 | RICHARD PYLE

Posted on 03/30/2008 7:22:34 PM PDT by Eye On The Left

"He was 'the most patriotic American photographer I've ever met, always talking about how he loves America,' said Associated Press photographer Paul Sakuma, who knew Dith through their work with the Asian American Journalists Association."

"The regime of Pol Pot, bent on turning Cambodia back into a strictly agrarian society, and his Communist zealots were blamed for the deaths of nearly 2 million of Cambodia's 7 million people."

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TOPICS: History; Miscellaneous; Reference; Society
KEYWORDS: cambodia; communism; killingfields; pran

1 posted on 03/30/2008 7:22:36 PM PDT by Eye On The Left
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To: Eye On The Left

RIP


2 posted on 03/30/2008 7:25:30 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Eye On The Left

Godspeed, Dith Pran.


3 posted on 03/30/2008 7:34:08 PM PDT by BurrOh (Kerry, honored member of War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City)
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