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2008:

  1. A Memorial of those who died in 2008
    A Memorial of those who died in 2008

    with Tom Lantos, John Leonard, David Foster Wallace and more on Dec 31, 2008

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    53 min
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  2. An appreciation of journalist Dith Pran
    An appreciation of journalist Dith Pran

    with Dith Pran on Mar 31, 2008

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    5 min
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1997:

  1. A discussion about the trial of Pol Pot in Cambodia
    A discussion about the trial of Pol Pot in Cambodia

    with Sydney Schanberg, Dith Pran and Richard Solomon on Jul 30, 1997

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    30 min
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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. 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. Schanberg and other foreign reporters were allowed to leave, but Pran was not permitted to leave the country. When Cambodians were forced to work in forced labor camps, Pran had to endure four years of starvation and torture, before finally escaping to Thailand.

He has been a photojournalist with the “New York Times” in the United States since 1980. Pran has worked for recognition of the Cambodian Genocide victims. He received an Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 1998 and is founder and president of The Dith Pran Holocaust Awareness Project, Inc.

Source-Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dith_Pran