People: Feb. 17, 1986

"This is my people, my home and my heart," said Dr. Haing S. Ngor, on the Thai border of his troubled homeland, Cambodia. A year after his Oscar-winning portrayal of a news photographer's harrowing escape from the Communist Khmer Rouge in The Killing Fields, the physician turned movie star has returned to Southeast Asia to complete a European television documentary and a book. "I want to show the suffering of the Cambodian people," he explained after meeting Chen Ian, 12, whose parents were killed in a Vietnamese attack on their refugee camp. The latest rulers in Phnom-Penh, Viet Nam's puppet Heng...

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