Le père François Ponchaud s’est éteint le 17 janvier à 85 ans, emportant avec lui une vie dédiée à sa mission en Asie : il ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 was born in Sallanches, a village in the French Alps, on Feb. 8, 1939. His parents had a fruit and livestock farm, where François worked until he was nearly 20.

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 ...

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

Lives lived: François Ponchaud, a French Catholic priest who alerted the world to the atrocities being committed in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge, died at 86. Global golden arches: A new ...

On vous a déjà maintes fois parlé du père François Ponchaud, témoin de l'arrivée des Khmers rouges, soutien à la communauté khmère réfugiée, traducteur de la Bible et auteur de ...

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 ...