Dith Pran, 1942 – 2008
“One time is too many.”
A moving video memoir of the Cambodian photojournalist, from The New York Times.
I remember seeing the film “The Killing Fields” in 1984 and wondering how this could happen. Then it happened in Bosnia-Herzegovina , and in Rwanda, and in Darfur. Maybe more people were killed in Cambodia than in any one place since then, but I’m not sure that the difference between 8,000 and 2 million is relevant in genocide.


[...] Fields, with Sam Waterston as New York Times journalist Sydney Schanberg, and Haing S. Ngor as Dith Pran, the Cambodian who worked as his interpreter and became his friend. I saw this movie when it came [...]
August 12, 2008 at 1:37 pmIf you want to understand more about what happened during that time the best book I have read on the subject is Year zero by François Ponchaud
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0030403065/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
Highly recommended.
August 14, 2008 at 6:08 amThanks, Graham. I saw photocopies of that book in Cambodia and thought it looked good. Apparently it’s no longer in print here, but I can get a used copy through Amazon.
August 14, 2008 at 8:03 am