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 ...

In 1965, François Ponchaud, a young priest with the Paris Foreign Missions Society (MEP), arrived in Cambodia, a small peaceful country with a population of seven million at the time. He ...

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 ...

Several states were planning yesterday to file suit to block President Trump’s order to freeze trillions of dollars in ...

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

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.

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 ...

Le père François Ponchaud vient de nous quitter, laissant derrière lui un héritage exceptionnel qui a marqué l'histoire contemporaine du Cambodge. Figure emblématique et infatigable ...