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Sydney Hillel Schanberg (born January 17, 1934) is an American journalist who is best known for his coverage of the war in Cambodia. He has been the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, two George Polk awards, two Overseas Press Club awards, and the coveted Sigma Delta Chi prize for distinguished journalism.〔(Sydney Schanberg - The Nation )〕 Schanberg was played by Sam Waterston in the 1984 ''The Killing Fields'' film based on the experiences of Schanberg and the Cambodian journalist Dith Pran in Cambodia. ==Early life and career== Sydney Schanberg was born in Clinton, Massachusetts and studied at Clinton High School in 1951 before receiving a B.A. in Government at Harvard University in 1955.〔(Sydney Schanberg biography )〕 After initially starting Harvard Law, he requested to be moved up the draft list and undertook basic military training at Fort Hood in Texas.〔(Interview with Sydney Schanberg 13 December 2010 )〕 Schanberg joined ''The New York Times'' as a journalist in 1959. He spent much of the early 1970s in Southeast Asia as a correspondent for the ''Times''. For his reporting, he won the George Polk Award for excellence in journalism twice, in 1971 and 1974. In 1971, he wrote about the Pakistani genocide in then-East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). Upon being transferred to Southeast Asia, he covered the Vietnam War. Following years of combat, Schanberg wrote in ''The New York Times'' about the departure of the Americans and the coming regime change, writing about the Cambodians that "it is difficult to imagine how their lives could be anything but better with the Americans gone." A dispatch he wrote on April 13, 1975, written from Phnom Penh, ran with the headline "Indochina without Americans: for most, a better life."〔("American leftists were Pol Pot's cheerleaders" ), Jeff Jacoby, April 30, 1998〕 However, when the truth about the Khmer Rouge came out, Schanberg readily acknowledged that, "I watched many Cambodian friends being herded out of Phnom Penh. Most of them I never saw again. All of us felt like betrayers, like people who were protected and didn’t do enough to save our friends. We felt shame. We still do." and utterly condemned the "maniacal Khmer Rouge guerrillas".〔(Crimes of War - Cambodia )〕 He was one of the few American journalists to remain behind in Phnom Penh after the city fell. The Khmer Rouge communists took over Cambodia in 1975 and killed approximately two million people. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sydney Schanberg」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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