Dith Pran

Dith Pran
Dith Pran
Lahir	27 September 1942; Siem Reap, Kamboja
Meninggal	30 Maret 2008 (umur 65); New Brunswick, New Jersey
Tempat tinggal	Woodbridge, New Jersey
Tempat kerja	New York Times
Dikenal atas	The Killing Fields
Pasangan	Sydney Schanberg

Dith Pran (bahasa Khmer: ឌិត ប្រន; 27 September 1942 – 30 Maret 2008) adalah seorang fotojurnalis Kamboja yang paling dikenal sebagai pengungsi dan korban selamat dari Genosida Kamboja. Ia adalah subyek dari film pemenang Academy Award The Killing Fields (1984). Ia diperankan dalam film tersebut oleh seorang aktor yang pertama kali bermain peran bernama Haing S. Ngor (1940–1996), yang memenangkan Academy Award untuk Aktor Pendukung Terbaik karena penampilannya.

Kehidupan awal

Pran lahir di Siem Reap, Kamboja dekat Angkor Wat. AYahnya bekerja sebagai pejabat pekerjaan publik.^[1] Ia mempelajari bahasa Prancis di sekolah dan mempelajari sendiri bahasa Inggris.

Angkatan Darat Amerika Serikat mengangkatnya sebagai penerjemah namun setelah hubungannya dengan Amerika Serikat terputus, Pran bekerja dengan kru film Inggris untuk film Lord Jim dan kemudian sebagai resepsionis hotel.^[1]

Kehidupan pribadi

Pada 1986, ia menjadi warga negara AS dengan istrinya Ser Moeun Dith, yang kemudian bercerai. Ia kemudian menikah dengan Kim DePaul namun mereka juga bercerai.^[1]

Kematian

Pada 30 Maret 2008, Pran meninggal, pada usia 65 tahun, di New Brunswick, New Jersey, setelah didiagnosa mengidap kanker pankreas tiga bulan sebelumnya. Ia tinggal di Woodbridge, New Jersey.^[1]^[2]

Referensi

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Martin, Douglas (31 Maret, 2008). "Dith Pran, "Killing Fields" Photographer, Dies at 65". The New York Times. Dith Pran, a photojournalist for The New York Times whose gruesome ordeal in the killing fields of Cambodia was re-created in a 1984 film that gave him an eminence he tenaciously used to press for his people's rights, died on Sunday at a hospital in New Brunswick, NJ He was 65 and lived in Woodbridge, NJ
^ Pyle, Richard (31 Maret 2008). ""Killing Fields" survivor Dith Pran dies". The Associated Press. 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.

Pranala luar

Dith Pran at Findagrave
"Dith Pran Biography". Diakses tanggal 2008-03-31.
The Dith Pran Holocaust Awareness Project di dithpran.org Galat: URL arsip tidak dikenal (diarsipkan tanggal 20090227144325)
The Last Word of Dith Pran New York Times. March 30, 2008. Video Interview of Dith Pran.
Obituaries:

[nyt-1] Martin, Douglas (31 Maret, 2008). "Dith Pran, "Killing Fields" Photographer, Dies at 65". The New York Times. Dith Pran, a photojournalist for The New York Times whose gruesome ordeal in the killing fields of Cambodia was re-created in a 1984 film that gave him an eminence he tenaciously used to press for his people's rights, died on Sunday at a hospital in New Brunswick, NJ He was 65 and lived in Woodbridge, NJ

[pyle-2] Pyle, Richard (31 Maret 2008). ""Killing Fields" survivor Dith Pran dies". The Associated Press. 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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