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July 11, 2016

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Sydney Schanberg Dies
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And the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose work inspired the film
"The Killing Fields" has died at the age of 82. Newsday and New York
Times reporter Sydney Schanberg helped create awareness of the genocide
taking place in Cambodia in the 1970s and 1980s under the Khmer Rouge,
following the secret U.S. bombing campaign in Cambodia during the
Vietnam War. This is Schanberg speaking with the Daily Mail in 1991.

Bq. Sydney Schanberg: "It is important to continue development. Without
it, the country is not going to grow out of this hell they have been in
for 30 years. Since the U.S. has some significant measure of
responsibility for that hell, having initiated in one since the war in
Cambodia and then having supported the Khmer Rouge for keeping the
Vietnamese out of power, we owed this Cambodian — we owe Cambodia
this aid."
Topics:Journalism Vietnam

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