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`Killing Fields' survivor Dith Pran dies (AP)

FILE **Dith Pran, center, embraces some of his relatives he has not seen since 1979 at the Site 2 refugee camp in Thailand seen in this Aug. 16, 1989, file photo. Dith Pran's death from pancreatic cancer was confirmed Sunday, March 30, 2008, by journalist Sydney Schanberg, his former colleague at The New York Times. Pran was 65. (AP Photo/Gray)AP - 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 “The Killing Fields,” died Sunday. He was 65.

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