00:01Cambodia
00:02To many Westerners it seemed a paradise
00:04Another world, a secret world
00:06But the war in neighboring Vietnam burst its borders
00:10And the fighting soon spread to neutral Cambodia
00:13In 1973 I went to cover this sideshow struggle
00:16As foreign correspondent of the New York Times
00:19It was there in the war-torn countryside
00:21Amidst the fighting between government troops
00:23And the Khmer Rouge guerrillas
00:25That I met my guide and interpreter Dith Pran
00:28A man who was to change my life
00:31In a country that I grew to love and pity
00:37This is a big story, a major story, you understand that?
00:40We have got to get down there
00:45If the war keeps going like this
00:47The future could be very bad
00:52Alright, I've arranged for the evacuation of you and your family
00:55So now it's up to you, what do you want to do?
00:59In a country shattered by war
01:03U.S. bombs, you sure?
01:04I think many, many times, I don't know
01:06And torn by revolution
01:08After what the Khmer Rouge have been through
01:10I don't think they're going to be exactly affectionate toward Westerners
01:13Two men would learn the price of survival
01:17They say that when this place goes up
01:19They think that a lot of people are going to get killed
01:20Of freedom
01:21Change my photograph for a photograph of Pran
01:23And he's a British subject
01:25And friendship
01:26All foreign journalists are going to leave Cambodia
01:28I won't leave you
01:29I try to escape to Thailand right now
01:35You know, Pran is not going to last five minutes out there
01:39One would leave to tell his story
01:42And win the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting
01:45Anyone who knows my work will know that half of this belongs to Death Pran
01:48One would stay to face his destiny
01:52And make his escape to freedom
01:55But both would never forget what they saw
01:58Nobody gets to go in there
02:00If I thought I could, I would
02:02What they felt
02:04What they experienced in the killing fields
02:07In the killing fields
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