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People in Cambodia are remembering Dith Pran as a man who helped awaken the world to the atrocities that happened in Cambodia in the 1970s under the Khmer Rouge.

More than 1.5 million Cambodians died from hunger, disease, overwork and execution during the brutal Communist regime.

Dith Pran died at a hospital in New Jersey over the weekend from pancreatic cancer. He was 65.

In his native Cambodia, he worked as an assistant and interpreter for New York Times correspondent Sydney Schanberg, risking his own life to save Schanberg.

Their story was told in the 1984 movie, "The Killing Fields."

Dith Pran himself escaped to Thailand in 1979 after Vietnamese forces invaded Cambodia and ousted the Khmer Rouge. He was later reunited with his refugee family in the U.S. and became a photographer for the Times.