First They Killed My Father Analysis

Growing up in the United States, my mother's side of the family would annually host a day to pray for our deceased relatives. They suffered a distressing escape from the Vietnam War in order to integrate back into normal society. Despite some of my relatives say we had the fortune of a red envelope, numerous family members told me that the Communists caused us to suffer. At five years old, I believed everything they said; especially things from my parents because I was naïve. After all these years, I realized not all is true; my family only explained the negative side of the story without acknowledging the affirmative version of the Communists. Especially after reading Loung Ung’s First They Killed My Father, Communist Vietnam quite frankly seemed passive and amiable to the Cambodians and saved them from the Khmer Rouge. This crossed my thoughts on this Communist nation; I had two sources which were contrary. Therefore, I strive to understand the reasons why Vietnam liberated the Khmer people from the Cambodian Government yet they fought their own people. The lingering fear in my family needs elimination; they need the truth behind the works of Communist Vietnam.
Confusion glided through me as I didn’t know that the Vietnamese ever went to war again after the Vietnam War. After my relatives elaborated on how catastrophic the war was on the citizens and the country itself, I assumed that Vietnam wouldn’t be ready to return to combat. Also, it was shocking that it only took two to three years for the country to stabilize and rebuild. However, what truly sparked this subject was when I remembered this reason: The Khmer Rouge received support by North Vietnam; the government which fought the Khmer Rouge a few years after the Cambodian Civil War. These components led me to have the ambition to analyze more on this