First They Killed My Father is Loung Ung's account of the horrific events her family endured while living in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s.

In the 1970s, the country of Cambodia was overtaken by the brutal Khmer Rouge.

In just four years, the Khmer Rouge regime led to a genocide of up to two million Cambodians. But we may never know the true extent of their crimes.

Human-rights activist and lecturer Loung Ung shares an intimate glimpse of what it was like to live through the Khmer Rouge in her book First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers.