NEW YORK (AP) — Sydney H. Schanberg, a former correspondent for The New York Times awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the genocide in Cambodia in 1975 — and whose story of the survival of his assistant inspired the film "The Killing Fields" — has died.
After being reunited in New York, Schanberg wrote a cover story for The New York Times magazine about Dith's harrowing experience, surviving beatings, starvation and backbreaking labor.
Ngor, a Cambodian who also survived the horrors, won an Academy Award for best supporting actor. Читать дальше...