They Killed My Father

Imagine leaving everything that was once a part of your life because a new government began ruling the nation you live in. Imagine watching innocent people being taken away, hearing screams and gunshots, and knowing that these individuals have been killed without even seeing it happen. This is what living in Cambodia during the Cambodian Genocide was like. Each day, instead of growing larger and stronger, children were growing weak. As a young girl, Loung Ung lived through this war. Years later, she wrote a novel called “First They Killed My Father”. In this book, Ung records the experiences that she and her family encountered while trying to live through the civil war. If I were to meet any of the individuals mentioned in this novel, I would