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	CAMBODIAN HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR
		Dith Pran's wartime life was portrayed in the award-winning movie, The Killing Fields.
		Pran saved their lives by persuading the Khmer Rouge that the three Westerners were neutral French journalists.
		In October of 1979, Dith Pran escaped to Thailand and to freedom.
	www.cambodian.com /dithpran (479 words)

	Dith Pran presented in Journal section
		Dith Pran survived one of the bloodies holocaust in human history, the Cambodian Holocaust by the Communist Khmer Rouge in late half of 1970s.
		Dith Pran was located at one of labor camps where he worked as a cook for flsmiths.
		Dith came back to his hometown only to discover that his father had starved to death in 1975, the Khmer Rouge executed his three brothers and his sister was murdered with her husband and two children.
	www.newsfinder.org /site/comments/dith_pran (830 words)

	Dith Pran Biography
		Dith Pran was a Cambodian journalist who suffered four years of abusive treatment after the Communist Khmer Rouge forces took over his country in 1975.
		Dith Pran was born on September 27, 1942, in the town of Siem Reap, Cambodia.
		Pran, meanwhile, was stuck in the new Cambodia, or "Kampuchéa" as the Khmer Rouge had renamed it.
	www.notablebiographies.com /Pe-Pu/Pran-Dith.html (1220 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Dith Pran, Cambodian survivor and journalist, to speak Oct. 11
		Dith Pran, whose wartime life was portrayed in the award-winning movie "The Killing Fields," will be the featured speaker Tuesday, Oct. 11, at Morehead State University's Duncan Recital Hall.
		Pran's talk, scheduled for 7 p.m., is presented by the Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies Council, with support from the Buckner and Sally S. Hinkle Endowment for the Humanities, and the departments of Geography, Government and History and English, Foreign Languages and Philosophy, and the Caudill College Arts and Humanities Council.
	www.morehead-st.edu /news/release.aspx?id=5865 (532 words)

	wek-scenelog
		Pran manages to bury his hat in the muck during this commotion and as the camp packs up to leave, Pran hides in the water out of the Khmer Rouge’s view.
		Pran spends much time caring for the leader of this second group's son and is careful not to reveal his knowledge of French or English, although he is asked.
		Pran explains that he is “trapped” by the KR and that he cannot let on that he is intelligent.
	www.lehigh.edu /~ineng/wek/wek-scenelog.htm (1963 words)

	Daily Record News - Teens learn lessons from killing fields (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Dith Pran, a survivor of the genocide in Cambodia, told students at Randolph High School on Wednesday, 'The true story we must tell from one generation to the next generation, to prepare for the future.' John Bell / Daily Record
		Pran saved their lives by convincing the Khmer Rouge that the three Westerners were neutral French journalists.
		Pran said he wanted to convey to students that genocides have happened throughout history, and that the atrocities must be accurately recorded and retold to ensure that they never happen again.
	www.dailyrecord.com /news/articles/news5-dithpran.htm (654 words)

	Global Talent Associates - Dith Pran
		While Americans and Cambodian dependents were evacuated from Phnom Penh on April 12,1975, Pran stayed to cover the fall of the capital to the communist Khmer Rouge.
		Shortly after the takeover, Pran and three other journalists were arrested by the Khmer Rouge and held for execution.
		In October of 1979, Dith Pran escaped to Thailand and to freedom in America.
	www.globaltalentassoc.com /site/clients/DithPran.html (157 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Killing Fields at Epinions.com
		The suspense conveyed by judicious editing and by the verbal confrontations at gunpoint between the Khmere Rouge and Dith Pran given in native language without subtitles, so we are captivated by the confrontations because we don't know what the characters must do to appease their captors.
		But there is also contrast between the two halves of the film- the first half being when Sydney and Dith are together, and the second half being when they are separated as Sydney is forced to go home and Dith Pran has to fend for himself as the khmere rouge take over.
		No, he actually believes it was Sydney's fault that Dith Pran became trapped in Cambodia and he does not bite his tongue about saying so in one of the most uncomfortable and emotional scenes of the film.
	www.epinions.com /content_164063317636 (1753 words)

	New Jersey Herald
		Photo courtesy of Dith Pran Journalist Dith Pran, who worked as a correspondent for The New York Times during the Vietnam War and was later sent to a labor camp in his native Cambodia, spoke about genocide at Blair Academy on Wednesday.
		BLAIRSTOWN — Dith Pran calls himself a one-man crusade against genocide, which is why he spoke at Blair Academy and told students to spread the word.
		Pran ended up being sent to a labor camp, where he said he watched as many people died from disease and starvation.
	www.njherald.com /342159109585942.php (392 words)

	The Badger Herald - Dith Pran discusses ‘The Killing Fields’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Dith Pran discussed the personal history behind “The Killing Fields,” a movie based on his struggle for survival under the Khmer Rouge rule, during his visit to the University of Wisconsin Tuesday.
		Pran said he was also given the chance of working as a chef, fisherman and gardener, allowing him to sneak food from the Khmer Rouge, which he ate in addition to the watery soup and occasional spoon of rice rationed by the Communist Party.
		Pran remains optimistic about the conditions in Cambodia, as the country is working to rebuild itself with a democratic government.
	badgerherald.com /news/2004/04/21/dith_pran_discusses_.php (668 words)

	The Killing Fields
		Dith Pran, aide to NYT journalist Sydney Schanberg in Vietnam, stays behind as the war ends, and the horror of Pol Pot's Cambodia unfolds.
		Although Dith's family is evacuated with the last US personnel to leave Phnom Penh, Schanberg persuades his translator to remain behind with him; and when Khmer Rouge troops enter the city, Dith convinces them that Schanberg and his photographer (John Malkovich) are French.
		The film chronicles unforgettable scenes of suffering endured during the Cambodian bloodbath (known as "Year Zero"), when the courageous and indomitable Dith Pran endures the atrocities of the Pol Pot regime and is captured by the communist Khmer Rouge and punished for befriending the Americans.
	www.criticalconcern.com /killing-fields.htm (1232 words)

	SUNY Geneseo
		Pran survived one of the bloodiest genocides in human history, the Cambodian tragedy set forth by the Communist Khmer Rouge in the 1970s.
		Pran and Sydney Schanberg, then a correspondent for The New York Times, covered the events leading up to the genocide, including the fall of the capital to the communist Khmer Rouge.
		Determined to educate the world and assure that the Cambodian genocide is not forgotten, nor repeated, Pran founded The Dith Pran Holocaust Awareness Project.
	www.geneseo.edu /news/nrap.php?pg=DithPranRescheduled.html (344 words)

	The Killing Fields (1984)
		They are separated and Pran is forced to remain when Schanberg and other American journalists and Westerners evacuate to escape a life-threatening situation in occupied-Cambodia during the fall of Phnom Penh in 1975.
		The film chronicles unforgettable scenes of suffering endured during the Cambodian bloodbath (known as "Year Zero") that killed 3 million Cambodians, when the courageous and indomitable Dith Pran endures the atrocities of the Pol Pot regime and is captured by the communist Khmer Rouge and punished for befriending the Americans.
		Dith Pran returned, with Sydney Schanberg, to America to be reunited with his family.
	www.filmsite.org /kill.html (612 words)

	DVD Review - The Killing Fields (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Pran makes the decision to send his family out of the country to safety while he stays on with Schanberg to cover the war.
		Pran, in an effort to save the lives of Schanberg and his compatriots (John Malkovich and Julian Sands), tells Schanberg not to speak as he convinces the Khmer Rouge that the three of them are actually French journalists.
		Not long thereafter, Pran is captured by the Khmer Rouge and forced to labor in the fields of the country.
	www.thedigitalbits.com /reviews2/killingfields.html (1267 words)

	Cambodian Holocaust survivor Dith Pran to speak Tuesday
		Pran will be keynote speaker for Human Rights Week Monday through Thursday (March 26-29) at UNC, sponsored by the Campus Y. Events will range from a demonstration of Falun Gong, the spiritual practice under fire in China, to a mock minefield demonstration, with life-size victim symbols and mock mines.
		It was Pran who got Schanberg's dispatches, the only Western eyewitness accounts of the takeover, to the rest of the world, wiring Saigon, Thailand or any place that would answer.
		But the communists marches Pran and the rest of his countrymen to camps where torture, executions and starvation reigned until the Vietnamese took over the country in 1979.
	www.unc.edu /news/archives/mar01/hrite032201.htm (710 words)

	News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Pran's lecture focused on the history of Cambodia and the conditions of the Khmer Rouge regime.
		According to Pran in the five-year period from 1975-1979, over 1.5 million, or 20 percent of the Cambodian population, died at the hands of the Khmer Rouge.
		Pran said he and the other victims of the killing fields were forced to "live together, work together and sleep together." Pran said many people died while they worked.
	www.oberlin.edu /stupub/ocreview/archives/1997.05.02/news/pran.html (446 words)

	'Killing Fields' photojournalist to speak in Trabant Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Pran was born in the picturesque region of Angkor Wat and worked in the tourist business until the war in Vietnam spilled over into Cambodia.
		Pran saved their lives by convincing Khmer Rouge officials that the three Westerners were neutral French journalists.
		Pran was exiled to the forced labor camps or "killing fields" in the Cambodian countryside, where he endured four years of starvation and torture before escaping to Thailand in October 1979.
	www.udel.edu /PR/UpDate/02/6/killing.html (386 words)

	wek-history
		Pran, through his quick thinking and excellent negotiating skills, was once able to save the lives of Schanberg and other journalists from the Khmer Rouge, a radical communist group led by Pol Pot.
		Pran and the other Cambodians were told that the party called Angka would now provide all their needs.
		Pran, through his excellent negotiating skills, was also able to save the lives of Schanberg and other reporters when the Khmer Rouge stormed the city of Phnom Penh.
	www.lehigh.edu /~ineng/wek/wek-history.htm (3910 words)

	Movies That Begin With K
		Dith Pran was a local journalist in Phenom Penh, the capitol of Cambodia, who became guide, translator and friend of Schanberg.
		Sydney does show some concern for Pran in the movie by arranging for Pran and his family to be evacuated along with the officials of the U.S. Embassy.
		Dith Pran made the statement in the New York Times Magazine article, "in the water wells the bodies were like soup bones in broth, and you could always tell the killing grounds because the grass grew taller and greener." This is the feeling given to the viewer in "The Killing Fields."
	arachnid.pepperdine.edu /goseweb/k.htm (1453 words)

	‘Killing Fields’ survivor gives heartfelt lecture
		Pran was exiled to the forced labor camps or “killing fields” in the Cambodian countryside where he endured years of starvation and torture before escaping to Thailand in October 1979.
		Pran depicted the surreal fall of Cambodian society as the Khmer Rouge swept through the country destroying schools, temples and monasteries, murdering all “intellectuals”—doctors, monks and learned individuals--in attempts to leave only the impressionable alive.
		Pran is the first speaker to lecture at the University of Delaware during Asian American Heritage Month, which is sponsored by the UD Office of Multicultural Programs and Asian American/Pacific Islander Concerns and continues into May. Additional sponsors include the offices of Human Resources and Residence Life and the Asian American and Pacific Islander Caucus.
	www.udel.edu /PR/UDaily/01-02/pran041102.html (728 words)

	Dith Pran - Resources for Teachers and Students
		Prepare: Cambodian Dith Pran is best known for the movie based on his story, The Killing Fields.
		Read: Dith Pran wrote an original essay for the Architects of Peace project.
		Explore: Dith Pran founded a project to educate American students about the genocide that occurred in Cambodia from 1975 until 1979.
	www.scu.edu /ethics/architects-of-peace/Pran/lesson.html (406 words)

	V - Generations - The Killing Fields (DVD)
		Pran himself survives in a labour camp by hiding his past and his abilities; suppressed and mute, separated from family and friends, always fearing somebody could recognize him or find out that he speaks several languages.
		Pran’s tale of woe starts; it should last for four years until the end of the Khmer Rouge-regime in 1979.
		When he is about to get killed by the Khmer, Pran flees with some of his companions in misfortune through the woods.
	www.v-generations.com /v/content/view/59/24 (1020 words)

	Center for Holocaust, Genocide & Peace Studies
		Most important, it gives the one who reads the words a vague feeling of empathy; perhaps a shadow of understanding lies in the tales of children who survived the dark years of Cambodia.
		Dith Pran's introductory words must be heeded; we will never forget the Khmer Rouge killing fields.
		Sophiline Cheam Shapiro contributed a memoir that dealt with the songs she and other children were taught to sing as they worked the fields.
	www.unr.edu /chgps/kim.html (1231 words)

	Lebron-Wiggins-Pran Cultural Center - Hampshire College - Amherst, MA
		The center was named after Lolita Lebrón, Roland Wiggins, and Dith Pran because of their contributions to the struggles Latino/Latin American, African/African American, and Asian/Asian Americans communities.
		Dith Pran was a survivor of war torn Cambodia.
		Pran, with his unique perception of the Far East and America, was a spokesman for Cambodian refugees around the world.
	www.hampshire.edu /cms/index.php?id=608 (538 words)

	Online NewsHour: Justice for Pol Pot? -- August 6, 1997
		DITH PRAN, New York Times: (New York) Well, I, first of all, I like to say that I’m ready to testify.
		DITH PRAN: First of all, you know, Pol Pot, always make some kind of tactic to confuse the people.
		DITH PRAN: Well, I see that it is--the stage of a trial that they have, and I don’t feel that Pol Pot will be handled through the democratic nation or through the Cambodia government.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/asia/july-dec97/cambodia_8-6.html (2400 words)

	March 7, 1996-Vol27n21: Letters
		He realized this mission in his first and defining role as Dith Pran, a Cambodian assistant to an American journalist Sydney Schanberg in "The Killing Fields" (1984), which will remain his legacy.
		Dith Pran and Dr. Ngor shared the same historical experiences and memories.
		Dr. Ngor was a gentle, humorous and generous man. In 1990, he agreed to join Dith Pran in Buffalo for a conference called "Children of Crisis" that was co-sponsored by UB and the Buffalo Public Schools.
	www.buffalo.edu /reporter/vol27/vol27n21/n10.html (644 words)

	The Killing Fields
		In the 1970s, New York Times journalist Sidney Schanberg and Cambodian journalist/translator Dith Pran are trapped in the Hitlerian Khmer Rouge revolution in Cambodia.
		Schanberg flees trying to bring Pran with him, but is forced to leave him behind.
		Of course I felt bad for Dith Pran and his family, but also for Schanberg as he was being torn up by his guilt feelings.
	www.vernonjohns.org /snuffy1186/klngflds.html (674 words)

	Racist propaganda in public schools: 'The Erasing Fields'
		Pran was not there to hear Schanberg's generous acceptance speech.
		Pran would remain a prisoner for three more years, until he could make a daring escape, and he would not see Schanberg again until the end of 1979.
		Dith Pran was a Cambodian journalist who had helped foreign reporters cover the Vietnam War in his country.
	www.textbookleague.org /84schan.htm (538 words)

	Dith Pran
		Dith Pran's wartime story of covering Cambodia's takeover by the communist Khmer Rouge with reporter Sidney Schanberg was told in the award-winning film The Killing Fields.
		Dith endured four years of starvation and torture in the Khmer Rouge's forced labor camps before escaping to Thailand in 1979.
		Schanberg represented Dith in accepting a 1976 Pulitzer Prize for their coverage.
	www.scu.edu /ethics/architects-of-peace/Pran/homepage.html (184 words)

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