After working as a translator and receptionist in Cambodia. he was hired in the early 1970s by Sydney H. Schanberg of the New York Times to be a guide and interpreter. The incredible friendship and partnership that developed between the two men became the basis for the 1984 film. "The Killing Fields." which helped bring to light the brutality of the Khmer Rouge regime. In 1985. Mr. Dith became a U.S. citizen and a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In 1994. he worked with former Senator Charles Robb to help pass the Cambodian Genocide Justice Act. Mr.
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