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 was born on Feb. 8, 1939, in Sallanches, a small village in the French Alps, where his father, Leon, served as a general councilor.

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 ...

François Ponchaud, the French missionary who revealed the reality of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge to the outside world, has died aged 85.

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 ...

A member of the Missions Étrangères de Paris, the clergyman died in France at the age of 85. In 1975, he was among the last foreigners to leave the country whose ideological shift he lat ...

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 ...