Ponchaud’s 1977 book “Cambodge, année zero” was one of the first detailed accounts of the horrors that unfolded after the ...

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 ...

A French Catholic priest, he wrote a book recounting horrors committed by the Khmer Rouge that were responsible for the deaths of almost two million people.

When the Khmer Rouge seized Cambodia, Western intellectuals dismissed reports of atrocities as propaganda. But French missionary Fr François Ponchaud persisted in exposing the regime’s horrors. With ...

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.

A member of the Missions Étrangères de Paris, the clergyman died in France at the age of 85. In 1975, he was among the last foreigners to leave the country whose ideological shift he later ...

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 ...

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 was born on Feb. 8, 1939, in Sallanches, a small village in the French Alps where his father, Leon, served as a general councilor. He worked with his parents on their farm, he ...

François Ponchaud avec des enfants khmers en 2009, sur les rives du fleuve Mékong au Cambodge. (Philippe Lissac/Photononstop via AFP) Il était arrivé en bateau au Cambodge en octobre 1965.