And the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose work inspired the film “The Killing Fields” has died at the age of 82. Newsday and New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg helped create awareness of the genocide taking place in Cambodia in the 1970s and 1980s under the Khmer Rouge, following the secret U.S. bombing campaign in Cambodia during the Vietnam War. This is Schanberg speaking with the Daily Mail in 1991.

Sydney Schanberg: “It’s important to continue development aid. Without it, the country just isn’t going to grow out of this hell that they’ve been in for 30 years. And since the United States has some significant measure of responsibility for that hell, having initiated, in one sense, the war in Cambodia and then having supported the Khmer Rouge afterward in the ’80s for the sole purpose of keeping the Vietnamese out of power—it was sort of a Cold War policy—we owe the Cambodians this continued development aid, even though we have not great security interest or economic interest.”