The Rev. François Ponchaud, a French Catholic missionary priest whose book “Cambodia: Year Zero” helped draw global attention to the staggering atrocities committed by the radical communist ...

François Ponchaud, a French Catholic missionary priest whose book "Cambodia: Year Zero" helped draw global attention to the staggering atrocities committed by the radical communist Khmer Rouge in the ...

By Seth Mydans The Rev. François Ponchaud, a French Catholic priest whose book “Cambodia: Year Zero” alerted the world to the atrocities being committed by the communist Khmer Rouge that ...

L’histoire a perdu un témoin, et le Cambodge un ami. François Ponchaud, prêtre missionnaire français, l’homme qui a révélé au monde la barbarie des Khmers rouges, est mort, le 17 ...

The Rev. François Ponchaud, a French Catholic priest whose book "Cambodia: Year Zero" alerted the world to the atrocities being committed by the communist Khmer Rouge that would eventually take the ...

François Ponchaud est mort vendredi dernier, quelques articles de presse ont fait état de son décès, mais c’est peu de choses par rapport à l’importance de cet homme et de son action.

When the Khmer Rouge seized Cambodia, Western intellectuals dismissed reports of atrocities as propaganda. But French ...

En 1965, François Ponchaud, jeune prêtre des Missions étrangères de Paris (MEP), arrive au Cambodge, un petit pays paisible d’alors sept millions d’habitants. Il se met aussitôt à l ...

Ponchaud’s 1977 book “Cambodge, année zero” was one of the first detailed accounts of the horrors that unfolded after the communist takeover. François Ponchaud, the French missionary who ...

François Ponchaud, était né le 8 février 1939. il est décédé le 17 janvier 2025 ). Il a marqué l’histoire contemporaine du Cambodge. Prete catholique, membre des Missions Étrangères ...

Father François Ponchaud – who died in France aged 86 last week – has been remembered by colleagues and friends as a Catholic priest who worked tirelessly to revive Cambodia from the 1975-79 ...