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Death. Watching hundreds of people die every day takes a hefty toll on the human soul. Living a life where famine was widespread and collapsing from fatigue meant certain death. Not because fatigue itself caused death, but people were shot on sight for collapsing on the ground. But a small boy, only twelve years old at that time, was one of the lucky ones that lived to tell the tale. Arn Chorn-Pond, born in , was only a child when the Khmer Rouge, a radical group of communists who believed that only an agricultural lifestyle would remove all corruption in Cambodia, came into power. They fulfilled their belief by executing all teachers, doctors, musicians, and almost every educated adult living in Cambodia, eventually slaughtering about to million people.  Arn Chorn-Pond was forced to work in the fields for tireless hours for several months until the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia, causing Pond to become a child soldier. Eventually he es

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Human Rights Activist Arn Chorn-Pond Visits Millbrook School

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Chorn-Pond was born in Cambodia in and is a survivor of the Pol Pot Regime and the Cambodian communist movement under the Khmer Rouge (CPK) communist party. An estimated million people living in Cambodia were killed during the brutal regime of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. Their bodies were buried in mass graves that became known as &#;killing fields.&#;

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In preparation for Chorn-Pond&#;s visit, students and faculty read the book Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick. The book recounts Chorn-Pond&#;s experience during the regime, and his time at the Wat Ek Phnom prison camp, where he was sent in when the Khmer Rouge came into power.

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Chorn-Pond opened his address to Millbrook students and faculty by playing his flute. This was a meaningful introduction, as he was able to survive his time at the prison camp by playing flute to entertain the soldiers. He was one of few to survive, and he says that music an

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Arn Chorn-Pond

Arn Chorn-Pond was born in in Battambang, the second largest city in Cambodia, in south-east Asia. When the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia, Arn was sent with hundreds of other children to a prison camp. He survived by entertaining soldiers with his flute-playing.

I come from a family of performers; I am the only one left.

Arn Chorn-Pond&#;s Welsh language life story

 

Arn Chorn-Pond was born into a family of performers and musicians who operated a small theatre in Cambodia&#;s second largest city Battambang.

He was 11 years old when the Khmer Rouge swept to power in Cambodia in , and by nearly two million people, a quarter of the population, were executed or died from starvation, torture or untreated disease.

Arn was separated from his family and forced to walk to one of the many work camps set up around Cambodia. He became a slave labourer in the forging of Pol Pot&#;s agrarian utopia.

It was on this initial walk that the horror began, with once