Internationally-renowned human rights activist, community organizer, and musician Arn Chorn-Pond inspires change through his incredible stories of surviving the Cambodian Khmer Rouge genocide. Subject of the Emmy-nominated documentary, The Flute Player. Separated from his family and forced by the Khmer Rouge into a youth work camp, he survived the horrors of the Khmer Rouge regime by playing revolutionary songs on the flute. Honored with many awards, including the Reebok Human Rights Award, the Anne Frank Memorial Award, and the Kohl Foundation International Peace Prize Never Fall Down is the achingly raw and powerful novel about Pond...
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Arn Chorn-Pond
Renowned Human Rights Activist, musician and Cambodian Genocide Survivor
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Internationally-renowned human rights activist, community organizer, and musician Arn Chorn-Pond inspires change through his incredible stories of surviving the Cambodian Khmer Rouge genocide. Subject of the Emmy-nominated documentary, The Flute Player.
Separated from his family and forced by the Khmer Rouge into a youth work camp, he survived the horrors of the Khmer Rouge regime by playing revolutionary songs on the flute. Honored with many awards, including the Reebok Human Rights Award, the Anne Frank Memorial Award, and the Kohl Foundation International Peace Prize Never Fall Down is the achingly raw and powerful novel about Pond’s life, a child of war who becomes a man of peace, from National Book Award finalist Patricia McCormick.
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An Evening With Arn Chorn-Pond
Emmy-nominated documentary, The Flute Player
Music Saved My Life
From Genocide to Cultural Renewal in Cambodi
