Saturday, October 31, 2009

Central Kitsap Students Hear How an Accordion Saved a Man From the Khmer Rouge

Friday, October 30, 2009
By Marietta Nelson
Kitsap Sun

SILVERDALE — It was a glimpse into evil that occurred millions of miles from their homes and decades before they were born.
Perched on a small stage in the Central Kitsap High School library on Friday, Daran Kravanh told students the story of how in the mid-1970s Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia killed his entire family and took the lives of three million more Cambodians. The Khmer Rouge ravaged Cambodia and nearly took Kravanh’s life too.
“I had a very deep visceral response,” senior Tommy Pfrimmer said. “It was so out there and so different than what we live in. It was intense.”

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