Christopher Hudson had never been to Cambodia when he wrote The Killing Fields, his searing bestselling war story. Almost 30 years later, on his first visit, he discovers a country and a people that are moving on with optimism

DITH PRAN, whose survival of the Cambodian genocide under the Khmer Rouge was dramatised in the film The Killing Fields, died yesterday, aged 65.

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