François Ponchaud, priest who revealed Cambodian atrocities, dies at 85 Father Ponchaud’s book “Cambodia: Year Zero” helped alert the world to the genocidal rule of the Khmer Rouge that ...

François Ponchaud, Who Alerted World to Cambodian Atrocities, Dies at 85 A French Catholic priest, he wrote a book recounting horrors committed by the Khmer Rouge that were responsible for the ...

Catholic priest Father Francois Ponchaud, pictured with copies of his book 'Cambodia, Year Zero,' in 1999. Cambodia's landmark trial against ex-Khmer Rouge leaders is "a monumental mistake", says ...

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 ...

Father François Ponchaud was a Catholic missionary in Cambodia when the Khmer Rouge guerillas -- communist revolutionaries -- seized power in 1975. They expelled all foreigners from the country.

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 ...

“Father François Ponchaud gave his entire life serving our Lord and the People of God as a missionary priest (for 60 years) in Cambodia since 1965!” writes the prelate.

FRANCE 24's Cyril Payen interviews François Ponchaud, a French priest who first alerted the world to the atrocities perpetrated by Pol Pot's regime in Cambodia. Ponchaud is also the author of ...

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 ...

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 ...