"The wind whispers of fear and hate. The war has killed love. And those that confess to the Angka are punished, and no one dare ask where they go. Here, only the silent survive."
                                                                                   ---Dith Pran

            Dith Pran was born in the South Asian country of Cambodia and lived there during the Khmer Rouge era. Though his family fled to the Unites States, Pran stayed behind with his co-worker, Sydney Schanberg, to help him cover the horrific events the occurred in Cambodia.

            When it was time for the journalists to leave Pran could not because the fake passport he had did not work, therefore leaving Pran all by himself in the shambles of Cambodia. Being left behind, Dith Pran was put into a labor camp where he could not show any sign of his intelligence, because it would ultimately lead to being killed. He pretend to be a taxi driver and suffered four years of starvation and torture until he had fled to a Vietnamese village and made into the chief. Afraid of what might happen, he did not reveal his connections to the US. On October 3, 1979, Pran escaped to a Thailand, where he stayed until Schanberg came.

           After his rescue, Pran worked as a photojournalist for The New York Times. In 1986, he ended up getting a divorce from his wife and married another woman, whom he also ended up divorcing. He campaigned to the recognition of the Cambodia Genocide and was the founder and president of Dith Pran Holocaust Awareness Project.

          On March 30, 2008 Dith Pran passed away due to the cancer he had in his pancreas at the age of 65.