Goodnight Dith Pran.

*watches Killing Fields w/sound off, Yakety Sax cranked*

Ankotil Bwewstuh

Sad. He was relatively young, at only 65.

RIP.

That's a weird and unneccessary way to say that the guy died.

Godnight, funnypran.

Anthropophaguy: That's a weird and unneccessary way to say that the guy died.

Welcome to Fark.

Doesn't understand the headline. Subby is trying waaaaaaaaay too hard.


Goodnight, journalist man.

where are the obligatory pictures??

Nice

But no mention of losing Richard Widmark at 92? Good going FARK!

/submitted the obit
//no postie on Fark :-(

K/H D

To have cheated the killing fields and to have died of cancer ... the guy deserved to just passed on a lot more peacefully.

Um, how does one JOIN a FIELD?

I know it's Fark, and while I find the insensitivity to mass murder off-putting, I know I have limited rights to be offended by jokes about mass murder here.

But the headline makes it sound like The Killing Field is a band or something. Or some kind of really badly named soccer club.

I always thought Kevin Costner could star in a movie about the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge, when they were involved in fixing World Series Games, and their spirits came back after Costner's character did some landscaping work.

...but I wouldn't know what to call it.

I heard Dith Pran speak at my university a number of years ago. His main point was that genocide didn't end with you know who--it keeps happening over and over again. Cambodia is just one of a long string of genocidal actions and this sort of BS really needs to stop.

One thing that's sort of been bothering me more lately is how you only hear about the Jewish Holocaust and yet you rarely, if ever, hear about the other much more more recent genocides such as this one. I don't think there's any sort of retarded conspiracy, but I think there should be some effort to realize that genocide is not limited to Nazis and continues today.

One of my Jewish friends in college sort of pissed off one of his professors because he kept insisting on writing his thesis on the Jewish Holocaust instead of one of the other genocides. I think that prof was probably pretty sick of getting Godwined every year.

no i have to agree. that headline lacks any humour or understanding of the said "killing fields" its beyond a bad joke. its just kinda stupid.. i for one, salute 'subbies' headline, bringing us to an all time low.
Here's to ignorance!

I'm Pol Pot, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies.

A choice is made, made of free will
Just like the choice, the choice to kill
In the speed of a moment
Life stands still now you're standing in my killing fields

Slayer FTW!

Totally f-ed up way to mention this guy.

I know this is fark, but come on.

I don't think the headline is insensitive. Just lame. Surely someone submitted a horribly offensive yet hilarious one.

Ex-Republican: One thing that's sort of been bothering me more lately is how you only hear about the Jewish Holocaust and yet you rarely, if ever, hear about the other much more more recent genocides such as this one. I don't think there's any sort of retarded conspiracy, but I think there should be some effort to realize that genocide is not limited to Nazis and continues today.

One of my Jewish friends in college sort of pissed off one of his professors because he kept insisting on writing his thesis on the Jewish Holocaust instead of one of the other genocides. I think that prof was probably pretty sick of getting Godwined every year.


Almost makes you think they don't care about anyone else but themselves.

Yeah, I was hesitant to say it because I didn't want to bash anyone, but this headline totally sucks. It's really dumb.

Ex-Republican: One thing that's sort of been bothering me more lately is how you only hear about the Jewish Holocaust and yet you rarely, if ever, hear about the other much more more recent genocides such as this one. I don't think there's any sort of retarded conspiracy, but I think there should be some effort to realize that genocide is not limited to Nazis and continues today.

One of my Jewish friends in college sort of pissed off one of his professors because he kept insisting on writing his thesis on the Jewish Holocaust instead of one of the other genocides. I think that prof was probably pretty sick of getting Godwined every year.

Well the people we choose to remember are remembered for a reason. How many memorials to the fallen WWII Soviets have you seen? None that I know of. Even though they lost more soldiers than any other country, and the war would have been lost without them.

It's a shame. He was my favorite Jedi.

"I want to save lives, including my own, but Cambodians believe we just rent this body," he said. "It is just a house for the spirit, and if the house is full of termites, it is time to leave."

Poor guy got screwed twice over in life - I expected something...angrier? than this.

goddfather40 Totally f-ed up way to mention this guy.

I know this is fark, but come on.

Um...riiiiiiigggghht

/I agree with you
//Me thinks your standards are too high for fark
///Laughed at Pol Pot reference above
///!!?/SLASHIESSSSS WEEEEEE111

A southeast asian dying young of cancer?

I heard his death was post-operative related. Operation Ranch Hand.

/During the Vietnam war, between 1962 and 1971, the American military sprayed 77 million litres of chemical defoliants in South Vietnam as part of a defoliant programme to deny cover for their Vietnamese opponents. [3]

According to Vietnam Ministry of Foreign Affairs, there are still 4.8 million Vietnamese people thought to be victims of agent orange. They live mainly in mountainous area along Truong Son (Long Mountains) and border between Vietnam and Cambodia. These people together with their affected descendants are living in sub-standard conditions and with many genetic diseases.[4]

A gallery of pictures of the victims can be found by searching on photo sharing websites, for example with keywords "agent orange victim" on Flickr.com Agent Orange Victim on Flickr.com

Ex-Republican: One of my Jewish friends in college sort of pissed off one of his professors because he kept insisting on writing his thesis on the Jewish Holocaust instead of one of the other genocides. I think that prof was probably pretty sick of getting Godwined every year.


- Never again. We must tell this generation and the next what happened, and make sure it never happens again.
- It's happening again? Where? Does it have jews in it?

- No.

- Let me tell you about the Holocaust. It must never happen again....

It is speculated that Pol Pot was murdered and the evidence was destroyed by burning him along with some garbage.


He deserved worse. (new window)

RIP Dith Pran. This man caused me to educate myself more on world happenings. And to realize that suffering is an, at best, abstract concept for myself.

drdank: It's a shame. He was my favorite Jedi.

See, THIS is how you do funny

He was "the most patriotic American photographer I've ever met, always talking about how he loves America,"

Heh, it was American bombing that created the chaos which gave rise to the Khmer Rouge. What an asslicker.

I never heard anyone utter a single bad word about his moose hunting. That's more than I can say about most Cambodians I know. RIP Pran. RIP Pran turn around pick a bale of rice Rip Pran turn around pick a bale of soybeans. Oh lordy, pick a bale of rice. Oh lordy pick a bale of soybeans.

camelclub: To have cheated the killing fields and to have died of cancer ... the guy deserved to just passed on a lot more peacefully.

Amen. He was a great man who continued, even while he was hospitalized for his cancer, to make the crimes of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge a part of mainstream history rather than just something that happened to "other people" to far away to merit our interest or concern.

The New York Times has a great short video.

Link (new window)

///Laughed at Pol Pot reference above
Woah woah woah...

Um...really, I am sorry...not laughing now at "Pol Pot"...not after I got edumecated...sorry.

Damn, what a life.

Here's hoping he's in a better place. He's earned it.

glaurunge: Ex-Republican: One thing that's sort of been bothering me more lately is how you only hear about the Jewish Holocaust and yet you rarely, if ever, hear about the other much more more recent genocides such as this one. I don't think there's any sort of retarded conspiracy, but I think there should be some effort to realize that genocide is not limited to Nazis and continues today.

One of my Jewish friends in college sort of pissed off one of his professors because he kept insisting on writing his thesis on the Jewish Holocaust instead of one of the other genocides. I think that prof was probably pretty sick of getting Godwined every year.

Well the people we choose to remember are remembered for a reason. How many memorials to the fallen WWII Soviets have you seen? None that I know of. Even though they lost more soldiers than any other country, and the war would have been lost without them.

I've seen a few actually.

They happen to be in Russia though.

May your spirit find peace Dith Pran.

Subby and whoever greenlighted it =fail.
If your going for tasteless it has to be funny.
Where are the grownups?

drdank:
It's a shame. He was my favorite Jedi.

Hate myself for laughing!
Well played sir.

/wipes coffe of keyboard

tatum: I'm Pol Pot, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies.

"Just dont go in that farking house."

Too subtle?

glaurunge: Well the people we choose to remember are remembered for a reason. How many memorials to the fallen WWII Soviets have you seen? None that I know of. Even though they lost more soldiers than any other country, and the war would have been lost without them.

*******

So I take it you have never heard of MAMAYEV KURGAN?

I visited this one, it is HUGE. She makes the Statue of Liberty look pretty meager in comparison.

Here is a link to a picture and description:

http://www.war-memorial.net/mem_det.asp?ID=93

Met him in 96 or 97, went to a speech he gave in Pittsburgh. Was lucky enough to chat with him, shake his hand and get an autograph. He died of the same thing that killed my father in 95, sad, hell of a way to go.

/well, autograph is worth more now.
//window please
///Stay tuned to Patrick Swayze for an in depth look at Pancreatic Carcinoma

Dith Pran, the photojournalist whose story inspired the film The Killing Fields, has died.
See how classy they are at Metafilter

TheBlackFlag
tatum: I'm Pol Pot, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies.

"Just dont go in that farking house."

Right there with you. Well played, sir.
*golf clap*

Moonk: Met him in 96 or 97, went to a speech he gave in Pittsburgh. Was lucky enough to chat with him, shake his hand and get an autograph. He died of the same thing that killed my father in 95, sad, hell of a way to go.

/well, autograph is worth more now.
//window please
///Stay tuned to Patrick Swayze for an in depth look at Pancreatic Carcinoma

I met him about the same time at my high school. Looking back, I suppose I must have gone to a pretty awesome high school, as we had guest speakers like Dith Pran, Richie Havens, David Amram, Chaim Potok, and General Westmoreland among many others.

Screw you, Subby. At least be funny if you're going to be a jerk.

KelvinTheClown: Godnight, funnypran.

DAMNIT!

sick minds think alike I guess.

I only recently watched the movie The Killing Fields, although I've known of the history for ages. Watching older, quality movies saves me from watching more recently-released crap.

RIP, Dith Pran. If, as you believe, you were only renting the body... IMO, you were a helluva tenant.

I remember when my Eastern Civilization class showed us the movie version in high school. I never thought I'd hear this guy go on a swearing tirade.

I'm glad he outlived Pol Pot. I hope he went without much pain. At least he had a more dignified death than Dr. Haing Ngor, who portrayed him in the film.

My father just got home after getting through a cancer scare, so I'm getting a kick...

Actually, I'm getting off of here to go see him.

Dr. Ngor was killed by the Khmer Rouge, was he not? Wasn't he shot in L.A.?