dith pran

At the beginning of the Khmer Rouge reign in Cambodia, New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg and his Cambodian assistant Dith Pran report on the atrocities. Dith saves Schanberg but is sent to the labor camps and presumed dead until four long years later.

Presents accounts of narrow escapes executed by oppressed individuals and groups while illuminating social issues and the historical background that led to the atrocities committed in Cambodia's "killing fields" by the Khmer Rouge.