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<b>ឌីហ្ស ប្រាន</b>(ថ្ងៃទី២៧ ខែកញ្ញា ឆ្នាំ១៩៤២-ថ្ងៃទី៣០ ខែមិនា ឆ្នាំ២០០៨) ដែលជាអ្នកសារព័ត៌មានរបស់ប្រទេសកម្ពុជាដ៏ល្បីល្បាញម្នាក់ ហើយត្រូវបានគេស្គាល់ជាជនភៀសខ្លួន និងជាអ្នកដែលនៅរស់រានមានជីវិតក្រោយការសម្លាប់រង្គៀស។ គាត់ជាប្រធានដឹកនាំក្នុងរឿង<b>វាលពិឃាត)</b>របស់បណ្ឌិតសភា AWard-Winning (១៩៨៤)។ លើកទីមួយគាត់បានសម្តែងជាតូអង្គ Haing S.Ngor រវាងឆ្នាំ ១៩៤០-១៩៩៦ ដែលគាត់បានទទួលពានរង្វាន់ប្រចាំឆ្នាំចំពោះការគាំទ្រជាពិសេសក្នុងការសម្តែងរបស់គាត់។
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1942|9|27}}
| birth_place = [[Siem Reap]], [[Cambodia]]
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'''Dith Pran''' (27 September 1942 – 30 March 2008) was a [[Khmer people|Cambodian]] [[photojournalism|photojournalist]] best known as a refugee and survivor of the [[Cambodian Genocide]]. He was the subject of the [[Academy Award]]-winning film ''[[The Killing Fields (film)|The Killing Fields]]'' (1984). He was portrayed in the movie by first-time actor [[Haing S. Ngor]] (1940–1996), who won an [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor]] for his performance. <!--[[File:ChoeungEk-Darter-9.jpg|thumb|Mass grave in Choeung Ek]]
[[File:Ommemorative stupa filled with skulls.jpg|thumb|right|A commemorative [[stupa]] filled with the skulls of the victims]]
[[File:Killing fields bones.jpg|thumb|Choung Ek Killing Field: The bones of young children who were killed by Khmer Rouge soldiers]]-->
==Early life==
Pran was born in [[Siem Reap]], [[Cambodia]], near the [[Angkor Wat]]. His father worked as a public-works official.<ref name=nyt>{{cite news | last = Martin | first = Douglas | title = Dith Pran, "Killing Fields" Photographer, Dies at 65 | publisher=[[The New York Times]] | quote= Dith Pran, a photojournalist for The New York Times whose gruesome ordeal in the killing fields of Cambodia was re-created in a 1984 movie that gave him an eminence he tenaciously used to press for his people's rights, died on Sunday at a hospital in New Brunswick, N.J. He was 65 and lived in Woodbridge, N.J.| year=2008 |date = March 31, 2008 | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/31/nyregion/31dith.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin}}</ref> He learned [[French language|French]] at school and taught himself [[English language|English]].
The U.S. Army hired him as a translator but after his ties with the United States were severed, Pran worked with a British film crew and then as a hotel receptionist.<ref name=nyt/>
==Revolution==
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]].<ref name=nyt/> Schanberg and other foreign reporters were allowed to leave the country, but Pran was not.<ref name=nyt/> Due to the suppression of knowledge during the genocide, he hid the fact that he was educated or that he knew Americans and pretended to be a taxi driver.<ref name=nyt/> When Cambodians were forced to work in labor camps, Pran had to endure four years of starvation and torture before [[Vietnam]] overthrew the Khmer Rouge in December 1978.<ref name=nyt/> He coined the phrase "killing fields" to refer to the clusters of corpses and skeletal remains of victims he encountered during his 40-mile escape. His three brothers and one sister were killed in Cambodia.
Pran traveled back to Siem Reap, where he learned that 50 members of his family had died.<ref name=nyt/> The Vietnamese had made him village chief but he escaped to [[Thailand]] on October 3, 1979, after fearing that they knew of his American ties.<ref name=nyt/>
From 1980, Pran worked as a photojournalist with ''[[The New York Times]]'' in the [[United States]].
==Personal life==
In 1986, he became an American citizen with his then wife, Ser Moeun Dith, whom he later divorced. He then married Kim DePaul but they also divorced.<ref name=nyt/> He also campaigned for recognition of the Cambodian genocide victims, especially as founder and president of [[The Dith Pran Holocaust Awareness Project]]. He was a recipient of an Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 1998 and the Award of Excellence of The International Center.
==Death==
Pran died aged 65 on March 30, 2008, in [[New Brunswick, New Jersey]], having been diagnosed with [[pancreatic cancer]] just three months earlier. He was living in [[Woodbridge, New Jersey]].<ref name=nyt/><ref name=pyle>{{cite news | last = Pyle | first = Richard | quote=Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country's murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the award-winning film "The Killing Fields," died Sunday. He was 65. |title = "Killing Fields" survivor Dith Pran dies. | publisher=[[The Associated Press]] |date = March 31, 2008 | url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080330/ap_on_re_us/obit_dith_pran}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=pran&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=25633354& Dith Pran] at [[Findagrave]]
* {{cite web | title=Dith Pran Biography|url=http://www.notablebiographies.com/Pe-Pu/Pran-Dith.html| accessdate=2008-03-31}}
* [http://www.dithpran.org/ The Dith Pran Holocaust Awareness Project] BROKEN LINK, where is the Project-Page online now?
* [http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/multimedia/20080320_DITH_PRAN_LAST_WORD_FEATURE/index.html ''The Last Word of Dith Pran''] New York Times. March 30, 2008. Video Interview of Dith Pran.
*Obituaries:
**[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3659803.ece ''The Times'', 31 March 2008]
**[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2008/03/31/db3101.xml ''The Daily Telegraph'', 1 April 2008]
**[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/dith-pran-survivor-of-the-killing-fields-803136.html ''The Independent'', 1 April 2008]
**[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/01/cambodia.pressandpublishing ''The Guardian'', 1 April 2008]
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| NAME = Pran, Dith
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| DATE OF BIRTH = 1942-09-27
| PLACE OF BIRTH = [[Siem Reap]], [[Cambodia]]
| DATE OF DEATH = 2008-03-30
| PLACE OF DEATH = [[New Brunswick, New Jersey]]
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[[Category:1942 births]]
[[Category:2008 deaths]]
[[Category:Asian photojournalists]]
[[Category:American people of Cambodian descent]]
[[Category:The New York Times people]]
[[Category:Deaths from pancreatic cancer]]
[[Category:Cambodian journalists]]
[[Category:Cancer deaths in New Jersey]]
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