To start with They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers introduces a resolute perspective of genocide through the eyes of a youngster. Ung disclosed to her own story as the most youthful youngster in a warm, cherishing and strong family. One day in 1975, after the U.S. had at last hauled out of a losing war in neighboring Vietnam, the Khmer Rouge came to town. Loung and her family were constrained out of their home and onto the street, alongside a large number of their kindred Cambodians.