Killing Fields

See also: killing fields

English

Etymology

Coined by Cambodian photojournalist Dith Pran in 1984.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

the Killing Fields

  1. A number of sites in Cambodia where mass slaughter of some 2,000,000 people was carried out by the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s.

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