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 ...

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 ...

François Ponchaud, the French missionary who revealed the reality of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge to the outside world, has died aged 85. Ponchaud spent 56 years of his life as a missionary in ...

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 ...

François Ponchaud, était né le 8 février 1939. il est décédé le 17 janvier 2025 ). Il a marqué l’histoire contemporaine du Cambodge. Prete catholique, membre des Missions Étrangères ...

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 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.