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 ...

Photojournalist Dith Pran, whose harrowing survival of genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge was dramatized in the film "The Killing Fields," died Sunday at the age of 65.

This month we have sadly lost two remarkable photojournalists who each had dedicated his life to crying out against human injustice and senseless war.

New York Times photographer Dith Pran, sits with his wife Ser Moeun on the lawn outside the Beverly Hills Hotel, in this Tuesday, March 26, 1985, file photo in Beverly Hills, Calif.

The journalist whose enslavement and escape from Cambodia's murderous revolutionaries was the subject of the movie ``The Killing Fields'' has died.

Dith Pran's death from pancreatic cancer was confirmed Sunday morning by journalist Sydney Schanberg, his former colleague at The New York Times.

" The Killing Fields is an award-winning British film drama about the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia .

First lady Rosalynn Carter introduces Dith Pran at a meeting of the National Cambodia Crisis Committee, in this Tuesday, Jan.

He was 65 and lived in Woodbridge, N.J. The cause was pancreatic cancer, which had spread, said his friend Sydney H. Schanberg.

Dith Pran had been diagnosed almost three months ago A Cambodian-born US journalist whose enslavement and escape from the Khmer Rouge became the subject of the famous film, The Killing Fields, has died.