In February 1977, François Ponchaud, a French Catholic missionary who had a deep knowledge of Cambodia, published his now classic Cambodia Year Zero, which documented the massacres.

The nature of the new regime was first disclosed by French Priest François Ponchaud in his 1977 Book Cambodige annee zero (Cambodia: Year Zero). Fr Ponchaud was in the French Embassy at the time of ...

Le pape François a été inhumé samedi à la basilique Sainte-Marie-Majeure, dans le centre de Rome, après une messe funéraire à place Saint-Pierre.

Reste que certains virent clair. À l’image du prêtre François Ponchaud, témoin de l’entrée des révolutionnaires dans la capitale et de l’exode forcée de la population.

Mercredi 19 mars, dans la salle paroissiale de Sallanches, plus de 100 personnes parmi ses connaissances et amis se sont réunies pour rendre hommage au père François Ponchaud.

Le père François Ponchaud (ici en 2016) s’est éteint à l’âge de 85 ans. Il est l’auteur de Cambodge année zéro, un livre sur le régime des Khmers rouges.

French priest Fr François Ponchaud knew better, though. A missionary in Cambodia, he was among the last Westerners to leave following the Khmer Rouge takeover. And he wrote a book, Cambodia: Year Zero ...

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, 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 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 ...

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. CONVERSATION STARTERS .