‘Killing Fields’ survivor Pran dies
He died of pancreatic cancer at a hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey..
Pran, who used his fame to draw attention to his country’s plight, spent his last weeks in the hospital surrounded by family and friends. Among them was Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sydney Schanberg, who worked with him for the New York Times during the Cambodian civil war and recalled him as a dogged journalist who was “always doing good deeds for people in the Buddhist tradition”.
