Funeral and Memorial Service for Dith Pran

New Jersey, United States

Courtesy: KI Media & South Plainfield Funeral Home

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg speaks at the funeral service for his close friend, New York Times photojournalist Dith Pran, in South Plainfield, New Jersey, April 6, 2008. Dith is known for his experiences with Schanberg in his native country of Cambodia, where he was imprisoned and later escaped the genocide of the Khmer Rouge (Cambodian communists supported by Communist China), which was turned into the Academy Award winning movie, "The Killing Fields." Reuters/Chip East

 

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.

Mr. Dith Pran was born in Siem Reap province, Cambodia (then the country was a French Protectorate) on September 23, 1942; departed on March 30, B.E.2551/C.E.2008 and resided in Woodbridge, New Jersey.

As of this date, justice remains elusive for the millions Cambodian victims of the 21st Century in Cambodia and abroad.