http://news.aol.com/story/_a/killing-field...0000001#cmntbgn

I was surprise to come across this as one of the the top news of AOL.

^^ poor guy, he has an amazing life.
I watched Killing fields so many times and I'm so amazed how he could survive that. ohhh

What! I thought he die a long time ago, this give me goose bump. i heard he die along time ago on the street of NY, some punk mug him for his watch or something and they kill him? this is weird. anyway the movie he did was amazing a lot of people love the movie, i mean the whole story telling and all. Dith Pran you're the man.

The actor dies in 1997. This guy is the real guy.

oh, okay. i don't know the real guy, but the actor is pretty good though. its sucks that he die so early.

Say what, Are you gone mad? You meant you don't know who's Dr. Haing Ngor the guy who play Dith Pran in the killing field movie? Shame on you ! I'm really,really sorry to hear that Dith Pran have passed, my condolences to his family.

^sorry, i should. RIP

the killing fields was an amazing movie. it's sad what happened. =( may he rest in peace.

Rest in Piece, it was so close to Khmer New Year too. Lets all honor him when we pray at the temple during New Years.

Please, take your moment to pray for him and thanks him for what he has done for his nation.

I worship your story Sir Dith Pran.

yeah,i thought he died a long time ago too. i didn't know it was the actor.

Both of them are great people.

yuh betta resize yuh sig,or yuh will get a warnin lik me.

It has been here for 4 months... what can you say?

Sad news..... R.I.P.

jus sayin,they gave me a warnin cause some c@ck suckas told the mod.

I think its not too big. I tried other sig with similar size before and got no warning or instructions.

Any Khmer people especially male, like Dith Pran, who survived the Khmer Rouge and live to be 64 can be called my brother any day. I know he didn't rest well when he was alive. I hope he rest well when he is dead. All these years I never knew where he spend his years with the Khmer Rouge.

He lived for a good cause, lets remember that.

No doubt, for sure !

So sorry to hear he passed away

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/multi...ATURE/#section1

That was so touching man.

Wow great vid man, thanks for that.

What is with the excitement? The man is no difference from the rest of
the Khmer Rouge victims. Don't let Hollywood and the New York Time
fool you.

He spoke out against genocide to the public, many khmer rouge survivors goes about without telling their stories. Many are unwilling to speak about it. Just think of it like this, if you had a bad experience, would you want to recollect it? He talked about his experiences and warn others that genocide is still going on in places like Sudan.

Applepannic, if they give any victim a good job in the US, they will speak to the public too.
Regular Victims can't just knock on our TV station every day and demand to speak nor to
make a show about them for Hollywood, you know?

In any case, how did Hollywood said about him escaping detection of being educated from
the Khmer Rouge? I remembered they said he negotiated with the Khmer Rouge to let a
couple westerner Journalists off the hook. The way I see it is Westerner journalists don't
hang out with uneducated people. Am I wrong?

I don't think anyone gave him a job to speak, he spoke to share his experiences. You don't demand a television show to speak about your story if you yourself can't come to terms with it. I remember when I visited cambodia in the early 2000s, there was hardly any mention of anything regarding the past. I can understand that, it was a small village and the people looked to the future. They repressed what was bad, which was very understandable. He told the Khmer Rouge that the journalist were French in favor of the regime, and he was forced to seperate from the rest of the people. Not everyone will know who is educated, his captors may have not known about his past with these journalist.

So your argument here is by just telling the Khmer Rouge that the journalist were French
and in favor of the regime, the Khmer Rouge wouldn't know that he associated with those
journalists? Is that what you are telling us? Stop making a fool of yourself here, buddy.
It's Hollywood, doesn't matter from which direction you are looking at it.

I'm sorry, but if you tell me something I'm not going to run around and tell it to anyone else, and I doubt the all the Khmer Rouge had knowledge that he assocaited with journalist. You're straddling his memory, its disrepectful child.

No surprise, I did anticipated that Hollywood had done a good job on
a few of your guys anyway. So enjoy your Hollywood show.

When you are the first photographer at the scene of the illegal bombings, espcially the one at Anlong Veng, then you do have a story to tell, with your lens.

My aunt was there, they bombed the village in the early morning when the markets are full as usuam and blood and guts was up to her ankels.

Every survivor tells their story, many go crazy and don't know what to make of it, Dith Pran put in in the limelight. Many Khmers in America despise Dith Pran, and many of them were KR supporters.

How did dith pran hurt us?

You got to be kidding me, Point_Dexter. Many Khmer in America were KR Supporters?
Where did you learn such a thing?


Well, that is after he became a Hollywood star, and drown in the America rich and fame.
He's always bragging about the US this and that, and there is nothing good with
Cambodia but evil Pot Pot. I bet if he got thing his way, the Khmer culture will be
history, just as what Pol Pot try to do with all of us. Thus, he's no difference from
Pol Pot who also thought Cambodia culture required major surgery. Am I wrong?

YES, YOU ARE ! Are you khmer? Have you experience in real life or just the glare from the TV's screen? Anyway, you can say anything you likes as long as it sound or you think it right for you as for us let us deal with what we knew and experienced.

Don't even dream about it, dude!

you call Dith Pran pol pot ?

Well, the shoe does fit.

Hey Voodoo... just accept the truth that Dith Pran has been admired.

Anyway, calling him Pol Pot will hurts his soul... please, if you were unable to attend his funeral, dont say a word.

Denith, where did you see me call him Pol Pot.

I said the shoe fit, and that mean his like Pol Pot. Remember: Pol Pot
want to change our culture to a one class culture with no rich and poor,
marriage between two people is to be setup by government, ... While Pran,
think our culture should follow American, where woman is free to jump from
man to man like wild gorilla in the jungle ... . Thus, both Pran and Pol
Pot are on the same boat. Just consider yourself lucky that he's not
ruling Cambodia. Otherwise, you own kid may plug your forehead
with a 22. If that is what you want, Denith, you should plant to move
to the US. We Khmer has no plan to turn our region into a wild-wild-west.

And to Pran, my last word to him is, "Bon Voyage to Hell, Moron!"

Dude, you sure do sound familiar. Is your call sign "Amekhmer"? Dith Pran is a witnessed to the Khmer Rouge ginocide. He is not the only one, I am one of them, and Makara and many people here in this world who do not wish to identify themselves. The Khmer Rouge soldiers killed many Khmer people in Thailand.

Well, we might have met in CF. You sound familiar too.

No, my sign is not "AmeKhmer".

So what, if many people do not wished to be identified. The Tribunal court (ECCC) got tons of witnesses
to testified. They have a hell of a time figuring out what to do with them.

And indeed KR killed Khmer everywhere East, West, North, and South, you name it.

So what is your point, mate? Can you let me in on it?

how many khmer did dith pran killed ?

chakra, there is two ways to kill a person: directly or indirectly.

Directly means you plug the poor soul with a 22 yourself or hire someone
to do it, although the latter maybe argued as an indirect killing, but it is
not important to do it here.

Indirectly means you brainwashed people to died for you, just like Lon Nol
brainwash a bunch of people to died for him.

It doesn't matter how you look at it, mate, dead = dead, and when you causing
it, you are a killer. Get it?

Furthermore, because it is an indirect killing, the victim dead time is not predictable,
but soon or later, they will followed their teachers, just like in Lon Nol case.

can you list all the bad thing lon nol and dith pran did ?

Darned kiddo, are you trying to work me to dead or something?

Okay, I'll just give you some brief because I don't want to spend the rest
of my life on this stupid post, alright?

As for Lon Nol , I have a hard time remembering anything good about him.
His worst crime was to send his soldiers to war against a well trained enemy
on an empty stomach...

As for Pran, I never heard he had anything good to say about Cambodia.
I understand Pol Pot was a surprise to all of us, but we have lot good things
in our culture that is priceless if you take the trouble to look for it. He has
no right to overshadowing it by the US culture. I don't care what he's doing
with himself, but nobody playing with my culture and my ancestor's wills.

Having said that here's some quote for your goddess:


http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/30/...a/Obit-Pran.php



http://newsfeedresearcher.com/data/article...1.13.45.26.html

That is enough, otherwise I am going to puke all over my PC.

died the day after my B-day...R.I.P Dith Pran

can you list any good thing pol pot dith pran or lon nol did ?

Stop pushing your luck, Kiddo!

Okay, the good thing that Pol Pot did was eliminating people like Pran and Lon Nol.

And I can't thing of anything good that Pran and Lon Nol had done.

Thus, Pol Pot was right, "to keep you is no gain, to kill you is no lost".

Pran is not Cambodian national hero nor zero. He's a normal guy, okay. However, what special about him! Is that he brought attention of US citizens to the observe what WAS really happening in Cambodia and he set up his holocaust awareness project to educate people about the danger of anything similar to the Khmer Rouge Regime... ISNT THAT ENOUGH?

lon nol did kap youn good or bad ?