Dith Pran, 1942-2008
Posted on March 30, 2008 by andrew
Via Chris in Paris, I see that Dith Pran, a survivor of and invaluable witness to the Khmer Rouge terror, has passed away.
The timing of Dith Pran’s death is a bit of a coincidence for me, personally: I started rereading Samantha Power’s phenomenal A Problem From Hell a few weeks ago “as a protest” when she resigned from the Obama campaign. As I was rereading it, I realized that I know almost nothing about the Khmer Rouge, the one regime in the twentieth century with a legitimate potential claim to the title “Worse than the Nazis”. So, I’ve been trying to fill in that knowledge gap over the last week or so. It sounds like a viewing of The Killing Fields would be well worth my time.
I hope that the world will honor Dith Pran’s memory by quite literally keeping alive the memories he shared with us.
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