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.

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 ...

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

Father François Ponchaud, MEP, who exposed the Khmer Rouge atrocities in Cambodia during the 1970s, passed away January 17 at ...

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.

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 ...

Ponchaud's 1977 book "Cambodge, année zero" was one of the first detailed accounts of the horrors that unfolded after the communist takeover.

Former information minister Khieu Kanharith credited Ponchaud as “the first to draw world attention” to the plight of ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...