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n. (killing field English)
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The Killing Fields (, ) are a number of sites in Cambodia where collectively more than a million people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime, during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Cambodian Civil War (1970–1975). The mass killings are widely regarded as part of a broad state-sponsored genocide (the Cambodian genocide).
Analysis of 20,000 mass grave sites by the DC-Cam Mapping Program and Yale University indicate at least 1,386,734 victims of execution. Estimates of the total number of deaths resulting from Khmer Rouge policies, including disease and starvation, range from 1.7 to 2.5 million out of a 1975 population of roughly 8 million. In 1979, Vietnam invaded Democratic Kampuchea and toppled the Khmer Rouge regime.
The Cambodian journalist Dith Pran coined the term "killing fields" after his escape from the regime.
Killing Fields is an album by the American production trio called the Molemen. The album boasts a wide variety of guests from New York as well as the midwest.
A cold case television series which takes place on the Discovery Channel.
Usage examples of "killing fields".
The voice that commanded me on the killing fields of Etaine speaks like an echo from the past, disbelieving.
Such killing fields had worked well on Diess and they might work again.
The last hour of the descent was undertaken during a long bloody sunset that turned the surrounding mist pink and made west-facing snowbanks look like killing fields.
Rumour is, the blockhouses in the killing fields beyond the walls will be attacked before the day's done.
Not even the tangles of white bones on the killing fields could convince her that last year had seen slaughter on the same scale.
You recall that as we left the battlefield west of Sandomierz, you were to return the booty here to Three Walls, and I was to take the larger group of our men to cross the Vistula and clean and loot the killing fields there.
For all that time the sky was black with vultures and you could smell the killing fields from twenty miles off.