February 21, 2008
By Wendy Killeen
The Boston Globe (Massachusetts, USA)
Sayon Soeun, an orphan from Cambodia, will share his story of being raised as a child soldier in the Khmer Rouge labor camps on Wednesday at Northern Essex Community College in Haverhill.
The lecture is the first in a series of public events planned by the college's diversity committee to explore genocide from different perspectives. In addition, the theme of genocide is being incorporated across the curriculum in creative ways throughout the semester.
Soeun was born in Cambodia in the early 1970s. He was taken from his family at age 5 and raised as a child soldier. In 1979, he fled with others to Thailand. He lived on his own for three years, taking whatever work he could find to feed himself. He arrived in the United States in 1983, settling with an adoptive family in Connecticut.
He currently lives in Lowell and is executive director of Light of Cambodian Children Inc., and a member of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee.
Soeun's lecture is scheduled from noon to 1 p.m. in the Technology Center on the college's Haverhill campus. Call 978-556-3955.
The lecture is the first in a series of public events planned by the college's diversity committee to explore genocide from different perspectives. In addition, the theme of genocide is being incorporated across the curriculum in creative ways throughout the semester.
Soeun was born in Cambodia in the early 1970s. He was taken from his family at age 5 and raised as a child soldier. In 1979, he fled with others to Thailand. He lived on his own for three years, taking whatever work he could find to feed himself. He arrived in the United States in 1983, settling with an adoptive family in Connecticut.
He currently lives in Lowell and is executive director of Light of Cambodian Children Inc., and a member of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee.
Soeun's lecture is scheduled from noon to 1 p.m. in the Technology Center on the college's Haverhill campus. Call 978-556-3955.
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