As one of the many victims who spent a whole period of his life being forced into a life of horror, pain, heart ache, and continuous and almost endless physical and emotional pain, Haing S. Ngor is a perfect example of those who we call survivors.Despite a point in his life where Ngor was plucked from a successful career of being a physician among various military hospitals and his own practice, Ngor persevered and was one of those who made it to the other side from the Khmer Rouge's murderous reign. Ngor's suffering was so horrible under the Khmer Rouge at one point he was left beaten and crucified for four days, with no food or water----but something in his spirit helped him survive. Ngor was not left in this cruel world just to contonue beig a "war slave", but soon Ngor would find success and bring innovation to the U.S. Ngor's claim to fame would definitely be his Academy award winning role as Dith Pran, a Cambodian journalist along side New York Journalist Sydney Schanberg, during the collapse of Phnom Penh and the course of the Cambodian Genocide. Ngor was able to help the world be even more aware of the horrors of the Cambodian Genocide by playing the role of one who was tortured, trapped, and imprisoned in the Angkar's society, just as he had been. Along with Ngor's innovative role, he was a humanitarian, philantropist and counselor to his community in Los Angeles. Overall, through the life and times of Haing S. Ngor, he displays a sense of courage, bravery, and passion, that shall surely live on forever.