<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br><br>CONTACTS:<br>HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, BOSTON, MA<br>Carmel Salhi<br>Affiliation: President, Harvard School of Public Health Public Health Intersections with Politics Student Group (PHIP)<br>Phone: 734-7171863<br>Email: csalhi@hsph.harvard.edu<br><br>BACK PAGES BOOKS, WALTHAM, MA <br>Alex Green<br>Affiliation: Owner, Back Pages Books<br>Phone: 781-2090631<br>Email: alex@backpagesbooks.com<br><br>Dr. Bounsang Khamkeo, Author of “I Little Slave,” to Speak on Experiences About Life and Imprisonment in Laos and Life After Imprisonment<br><br>Dr. Bounsang Khamkeo will speak at the Harvard School of Public Health on April 15 and Waltham’s Back Pages Books on April 17. The events, organized by the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, the Harvard School of Public Health Public Health Intersections with Politics Student Group, and
the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, will bring highlight the interconnectedness of politics, trauma, health, displacement and the human condition. Dr. Khamkeo will reflect on his experiences in “I Little Slave” and since its publication.<br><br>Between 1968 and 1973 Laos underwent one of the most massive bombing campaigns in history. Conducted by the US army in Laos against the North Vietnamese communists, ultimately this bombardment was ended by the signing of the Paris Peace Accords. Dr. Khamkeo was raised in Laos and subsequently received a Ph.D. in political science in France, subsequently returning home to Laos in October 1973. As the future looked more promising for his country, Dr. Khamkeo joined the newly created coalition government in Vientiane, Laos. In the months that followed he found himself witness to the corruption and breakdown of his world. After having been seized by the Pathet Lao in the wake of the Communist revolution of
December 1975, he endured more than seven years in prison under incredibly harsh conditions before his release in September 1988. He moved to the United States in 1989, as the threat of re-imprisonment and persecution by the government persisted.<br><br>Details for each event and information about the sponsors can be found below.<br><br>APRIL 15<br>12:30-1:30 PM<br>Harvard School of Public Health<br>Kresge Building, Room G2<br>677 Huntington Ave<br>Boston, MA 02115<br><br>APRIL 17<br>7:30-9:30 PM<br>Back Pages Books<br>289 Moody Street<br>Waltham, MA 02453<br><br>The Harvard School of Public Health Public Health Intersections with Politics Student Group explores the ways that politics at the local, national and international level interact with both public health through a variety of events including talks and speaker series, movie showings and forums.<br><br>The Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma originally founded at the Harvard School of Public
Health, is a multi-disciplinary program that has been pioneering the health and mental health care of traumatized refugees and civilians in areas of conflict/post-conflict and natural disasters for over two decades.<br><br>Waltham’s Back Pages Books opened in 2005 as the first bookstore in Waltham in over a decade, and has followed a path of using a small space to promote big ideas through a mixture of new and used books, author events, civic activism, and advocacy for the arts in Waltham.<br><br><div style="color: rgb(127, 127, 0);"><div><div align="center"><font color="#ff80ff" face="verdana"><em>Warmest regards,</em></font></div> <div align="center"><font color="#a040ff" face="verdana">----------o<font color="#80ff00">O</font>o----------</font></div> <div align="center"><font color="#ff0000" face="verdana">Tutu Phimviengkham, managing editor</font></div> <div align="center"><font face="verdana"> <em><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
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