killing fields

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Four Kenyans -- Victor, Mark, Erik and Moses -- recounted to AFP the web of deception that took them to the killing fields of Ukraine.

From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026

Now, Amila shows it to her own children — four and eight-years-old — who were born in America, thousands of miles from the camps and killing fields of Prijedor.

From Salon • Jul. 31, 2025

In the killing fields of Iraq and Afghanistan in the early 2000s, the signature drug-resistant pathogen to emerge was the bacterium Acinetobacter baumannii.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 27, 2024

“Looking back on it, perhaps it was a vision of turning blood into wine, killing fields into vineyards and hatred into love,” Kühn said in an interview last week.

From Seattle Times • May 11, 2023

We are now the playground of the Caribbean, who were once its killing fields.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez