“Nothing has shaped my life as much as surviving the Pol Pot regime. I am a survivor of the Cambodian holocaust. That’s who I am.” Dr. Haing S. Ngor 20 years later, the Oscar-winning actor was gunned down in a Los Angeles alley in Chinatown. How could it be that he survived a genocide, in which an estimated 1.5 to 3 million people were killed, only to be murdered in America? Arthur Dong’s “The Killing Fields of Dr. Haing S. Ngor” (http://bit.ly/DocWorld) premieres on #DocWorld this Sunday, Sept.

46K views · 477 reactions | Haing S. Ngor had no previous acting experience when he was cast as real-life Cambodian photojournalist Dith Pran in "The Killing Fields," a film about the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. "Thank [you]... for helping me tell my story to the world, let the world know what happened in my country," he said, when accepting the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. | The Academy | Facebook