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Sunday, March 30, 2008

Dith Pran, Camobodian Genocide survivor dies

Dith is the person who first used the term "killing fields" for the genocide in Cambodia during Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge rule. Somehow he managed to survive those horrible years and eventually make it to America. Earlier this year Dith was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

His story was depicted in the award winning film The Killing Fields. Photos of what Tuel Sleng looks like today only scratch the surface of how violent the Khmer Rouge period was for people under their rule.

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