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‘KILLING FIELDS’ PHOTOGRAPHER DIES

March 31, 2008

A great man is gone: Cambodian-born photographer and reporter Dith Pran, whose personal story of escaping the enslavement and genocide of 1970s Cambodia under dictator Pol Pot became the film “The Killing Fields,” died Sunday of pancreatic cancer.
Dith, 65, is credited with coining the terrible term “killing fields,” according to The Associated Press, whose obituary [...]

FOR SALE

October 26, 2007

And if the day couldn’t get more hateful: a Mercedes limousine supposedly owned by Pol Pot, the infamously brutal Khmer Rouge leader who killed about two million Cambodians in the 1970’s, is up for sale on eBay.
Via BoingBoing 

 

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