Randolph man chronicles escape from Laos as a child
Randolph man chronicles escape from Laos as a child Kari Strouth Communists. That’s who invaded Boun Sandraow’s homeland in Laos when he was 5. Men with guns who took over his village, forced them out of the mountains and down to the farmlands. Communists who imprisoned his father and treated him so poorly that when he was finally released from his “reeducation camp,” he died. When Sandraow was 10, he decided it was time to escape those Communists and find a better life in what he thought was the promised land of Thailand. “Some people would talk about Thailand," Sandraow said. "In ...
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