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Haing Somnang Ngor was born on March 22, 1940, in Samrong Yong, a village in Cambodia, then part of French Indochina. [1] [2] His mother was Khmer, and his father was of Chinese descent. [3] Ngor trained as a gynecologist and obstetrician, practicing in Phnom Penh before the capture of the city by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge in 1975. He had to ...
Haing Somnang Ngor was born in Samrong Young (in 1940, French Indochina), Bati district, now Takeo province, Cambodia, he trained as a surgeon and gynecologist. He was practicing in the capital, Phnom Penh, in 1975 when Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge seized control of the country and proclaimed it Democratic Kampuchea.
Haing Somnang Ngor was born on March 22, 1940, in Samrong Yong, a village in Cambodia, then part of French Indochina. His mother was Khmer, and his father was of Chinese descent. Ngor trained as a gynecologist and obstetrician, practicing in Phnom Penh before the capture of the city by Pol Pot 's Khmer Rouge in 1975.
Haing Somnang Ngor ( Khmer: ហាំង សំណាង ង៉ោ; March 22, 1940 – February 25, 1996) was a Cambodian-born American actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Dith Pran in the biographical drama film The Killing Fields (1984). He was murdered in Los Angeles in 1996.
French Indochina (previously spelled as French Indo-China), [a] [b] officially known as the Indochinese Union [c] [d] and after 1941 as the Indochinese Federation, [e] was a grouping of French colonial territories in Mainland Southeast Asia until its end in 1954.
Feb 25, 2016 · Officially, three teenaged members of the Oriental Lazy Boyz gang were convicted of Ngor’s murder, but many in Cambodia believe his assassination was ordered by Pol Pot, who led the Khmer Rouge.
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Dec 27, 2022 · Ngor was born in Samrong Yong, Cambodia, hailing from a privileged Chinese Khmer family. Instead of following the family business, he became an obstetrician and gynecologist, as well as a medical officer in the Cambodian Army.
