Killing Fields

See also: killing fields

English

Etymology

Coined by Cambodian photojournalist Dith Pran in 1984

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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.

Translations

sites in Cambodia where mass slaughter was carried out

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 殺戮戰場 / 杀戮战场 (shālù zhànchǎng)

• Finnish: kuoleman kentät
• Japanese: キリング・フィールド (kiringu fīrudo)
• Khmer: វាលពិឃាត (veal-pi-khheat)
• Korean: 킬링필드 (killingpildeu)
• Lithuanian: mirties laukai
• Polish: pola śmierci n pl
• Russian: поля́ сме́рти n pl (poljá smérti)
• Swedish: dödens fält n