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  • April 2008

    • Iraqi Army Rescues British Journalist

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Apr 14, 08 10:29 AM CDT

      Iraqi Army Rescues British Journalist

      (Newser) - Iraqi troops rescued British photojournalist Richard Butler during a raid in Basra today, the Daily Telegraph reports. Storming a suburban house, soldiers found Butler with a hood over his head, but apparently unharmed. Butler had been working in Basra for CBS when he was abducted—by what were thought to be Shiite militiamen—from his hotel 2 months ago. More »

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      Iraq  • Basra  • Iraq Army  • Iraqi militias  • photojournalist  • Richard Butler

  • March 2008

    • 'Killing Fields' Photog Dith Dead at 65

      New York Times  |  Mar 30, 08 12:39 PM CDT

      'Killing Fields' Photog Dith Dead at 65

      (Newser) - Photojournalist Dith Pran, whose saga was re-created in the film The Killing Fields, has died of pancreatic cancer at 65, the New York Times reports. The Cambodian native became the Khmer Rouge's most vocal opponent after escaping in 1979, having worked in labor camps and survived on a spoonful of rice a day. He moved to New York, where he began working for the Times and against the Cambodian genocide. "I'm a one-person crusade," he once said. More »

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      obituary  • New York Times  • Thailand  • genocide  • Cambodia  • Khmer Rouge  • Pulitzer Prize  • labor camp  • photojournalist

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