Haing S. Ngor (March 22nd 1940, Samrong Young, Kampuchea - February 25th 1996, Los Angeles, California) played in 1984 in the film the Tear ( The Killing Fields ) the role of Dith Pran, Journaliste off-set in the camps of work of the mode Khmer Rouge directed iron hand by Pol Pot.

The scenario of film is very largely inspired by its history: doctor, it itself was off-set of 1975 with 1979.

In 1988 it wrote Haing Ngor: In Cambodian Odyssey , telling its life under the Khmer Rouge mode.

He was assassinated in 1996, at the time of an aggression which turned badly.

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