A WAR THEY NEVER KNEW.(Brief Article)

For many of the Cambodian young people living in Lowell, Mass., who flocked to a local performance in March of River Arts Repertory's multi-media play The Road Home: Stories of Children of War, the play's vivid accounts of Khmer Rouge brutality in their homeland came as a shocking surprise.

Although some had lived through the Pol Pot years in Cambodia as infants, they had never been told of the violence that forced their families to flee the country as refugees. "Some parents remain ashamed of the memories of that time," explains River Arts artistic director Lawrence ...

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