Source> BBC.Com.

Arn Chorn-Pond was a child in Cambodia when the Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975. Born into a family of artists and musicians, he was sent to a children’s labour camp where he escaped death by playing his flute for the camp guards.

His brother and sister starved to death and he had to attend daily executions at the camp before he finally fled his captors when Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia in 1979.

In a refugee camp in Thailand, Peter Pond, a Lutheran minister and aid worker, adopted him in 1980 and took him to the United States.

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