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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

François Ponchaud, the French missionary who revealed the reality of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge to the outside world, has died aged 85. Ponchaud spent 56 years of his life as a missionary in ...

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

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 ...