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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Phnom Penh (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Fr François Ponchaud, a missionary who spent 56 years in Cambodia, died today at the age of 85 at the retirement home of the Missions Étrangères de Paris ...

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 ...

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

French missionary who served Cambodia dies at 86 Father François Ponchaud was first person to expose the horrors of Khmer Rouge through his book,... Former Thai marine confesses to Cambodian ...

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 ...

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.