He will be remembered as the man who turned Cambodia into the killing fields, a dictator responsible for the deaths of millions of his countrymen and unrepentant to the end.

BBC: Goodbyes

Chhang fears that private companies coming into Cambodia are turning the Killing Fields into "Disneylands", as he told the Associated Press in 2006.

BBC: Touring history��s dark side

Before Baghdad succeeds in turning the marshlands near Basra a pathetic refuge to hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shiites who fled their homes when U.S. inaction ensured the failure of their revolt against Saddam into killing fields, the regime itself must be crushed.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: WANTED: SADDAM HUSSEIN, DEAD OR ALIVE

Youk Chhang was just a child when he was separated from his family and forced into slave labour in the Killing Fields.

BBC: Touring history��s dark side

Once again he escaped, ducking into a darkened doorway while being led to the killing fields on the banks of the Danube River.

FORBES: Home Ties

Areas of the mountainous province of Relizane were turned into killing-fields as teams of armed men attacked isolated hamlets, slaughtering whole families and burning houses.

ECONOMIST: The outside world wakes up to a long butchery

Lucrative rice crops are being hard hit, too, as saltwater creeps into aquifers beneath the fields, contaminating wells used for irrigation and killing crops.

CNN: Severe drought threatens Louisiana coastal marshes

The rivalry for control of the illegal drug industry turned New Orleans's housing projects into killing fields.

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