Of pancreatic cancer. Story here. His story was told in The Killing Fields.
I just watched this film a couple of weeks ago for a Southeast Asia class I’m taking and it was frightening what that guy went through personally as well as his country in general. At least he got to live a normal life for 25 years or so in the US.
As an aside when I went to rent this film I was sure it had James Woods in it. Research has now told me that I was thinking of “The Onion Field” which has nothing to do with Cambodia.
I may be wrong, but I think he’s the first real person to die after the actor who won an Oscar portraying him did (Dr. Haing S. Ngor was murdered in 1996).
RIP.
How many Cambodians does it take to change a light bulb?
[spoiler]Both of them.
I am so going to Hell . . .[/spoiler]
