In the late 1970s, thousands of Cambodians were slaughtered in what became known as "The Killing Fields." On Monday, a U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal handed down its first sentence related to that genocide, but the verdict against the former chief…

Dith Pran, the Cambodian journalist for the New York Times who documented and barely escaped the Khmer Rouge's "killing fields" in the 1970s, died Sunday. He was 65.