r.i.p. dith pran

when we're watching dengue fever tonight, i'll also be pondering the life of dith pran, the cambodian journo whose experiences under the murderous khmer rouge regime formed the basis for the movie the killing fields. dith left the planet sunday, following a struggle with pancreatic cancer. the khmer rouge slaughtered between a quarter and a third of cambodia's population, depending on whose accounting you believe, including most of the musos who created the "cambodian rocks" style that dengue fever's sound pays homage to.