Editing Haing S. Ngor (section)

==Early life==
Haing Somnang Ngor was born on March 22, 1940, in [[Bati district|Samrong Yong]], a village in [[French protectorate of Cambodia|Cambodia]], then part of French Indochina.<ref name="Elizabeth Lu">{{cite news |last=Lu |first=Elizabeth |title=For Haing Ngor, Sorrow Marks a Return Home |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-12-vw-2247-story.html |access-date=July 12, 2024 |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=September 12, 1989}}</ref><ref name="HN-bio">{{cite web |title=Biography |url=http://www.haingngorfoundation.org/biography.html |website=Haing S. Ngor |access-date=October 6, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724235340/http://www.haingngorfoundation.org/biography.html |archive-date=July 24, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> His mother was [[Khmer people|Khmer]], and his father was of Chinese descent.{{Sfn|Kim|Fugita|Cordova|1999}}

Ngor trained as a [[gynecologist]] and [[obstetrician]], practicing in [[Phnom Penh]] before the [[Fall of Phnom Penh|capture of the city]] by [[Pol Pot]]'s [[Khmer Rouge]] in 1975. He had to conceal his education, medical skills, and even the fact that he wore glasses to avoid the new regime's intense hostility to intellectuals and professionals. Ngor was expelled from Phnom Penh with the bulk of its two million inhabitants as part of the Khmer Rouge's idea [[Year Zero (political notion)|Year Zero]] and sent to farm rice imprisoned with his wife, Chang My-Huoy, who required a [[cesarean section]] and died with the couple's unborn child<ref name="Elizabeth Lu" /><ref name="AP">{{cite news |title='Killing Fields' Of L.A. Claim Cambodian Hero |url=https://www.deseret.com/1996/3/3/19228320/killing-fields-of-l-a-claim-cambodian-hero/ |access-date=July 12, 2024 |newspaper=[[Deseret News]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=March 3, 1996}}</ref> during labor in 1978{{Sfn|Kim|Fugita|Cordova|1999}} because it was impossible to perform the surgery without risking the whole family's life.{{Sfn|Ngor|Warner|1987|p=332–333}}<ref name="Post-Dispatch obituary">{{cite news |title=Cambodian Actor Slain In 'Killing Fields' Of LA |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/145099725/ |access-date=July 12, 2024 |newspaper=[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]] |date=February 27, 1996 |location=Los Angeles |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref name="MN">{{cite news |title=Court Revives Convictions in Murder of 'Killing Fields' Survivor |url=http://www.metnews.com/articles/2005/tanx070805.htm |work=Metropolitan News |date=2005-07-08 |access-date=2007-10-06}}</ref> He survived three terms in prison, using his medical knowledge to keep himself alive by eating [[beetle]]s, [[termite]]s,{{Sfn|Ngor|Warner|1987|p=454}} and [[scorpion]]s.<ref name="Ebert">{{cite web|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/the-day-haing-s-ngor-won-the-oscar|title=The day Haing S. Ngor won the Oscar|first=Roger|last=Ebert|author-link=Roger Ebert|date=March 24, 1985|access-date=September 15, 2016}}</ref>

After the [[Cambodian–Vietnamese War|fall of the Khmer Rouge]] in 1979, Ngor and his niece crawled to safety in a [[Red Cross]] [[refugee camp]]<ref name="Ebert" /> in Thailand, where he subsequently worked as a physician.<ref name="Elizabeth Lu" /> The next year, they moved to the United States,<ref name="HN-bio" />{{Sfn|Kim|Fugita|Cordova|1999}}<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1996/04/27/3-teens-are-charged-with-murder-of-killing-fields-actor-haing-ngor/|title=3 Teens Are Charged With Murder of 'Killing Fields' Actor Haing Ngor|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|first=Richard|last=Liefer|date=April 27, 1996|access-date=July 12, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Ngor, Haing S. |url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9113310/Ngor,%20Haing%20S |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120720152202/http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9113310/Ngor,%20Haing%20S |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-07-20 |work=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=2007-10-06 }}</ref> where they settled in [[Los Angeles]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Goldberg |first=Reid |title=The Oscar Winner Whose Death Became a True Crime Story |url=https://collider.com/oscars-haing-s-ngor-murder/ |access-date=July 12, 2024 |website=[[Collider (website)|Collider]] |date=September 20, 2023}}</ref> Later in his life, Ngor was unable to resume his medical practice<ref name="yellowbridge.com">{{cite news |title=Famous Chinese-Americans in Entertainment: Acting; Haing S. Ngor |url=http://www.yellowbridge.com/people/actingM.html |work=Yellow Bridge |access-date=2007-10-06}}</ref> and did not remarry.<ref name="AP" />