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 ...
A federal judge yesterday temporarily blocked an order by President Trump to freeze trillions of dollars in federal grants ...
Ponchaud’s 1977 book “Cambodge, année zero” was one of the first detailed accounts of the horrors that unfolded after the ...
The Cambodian government has approved a draft law and stiff penalties to counter those who would deny the atrocities ...
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.
China says it is leading regional efforts to crack down on online scamming operations and other transnational criminal ...
Former information minister Khieu Kanharith credited Ponchaud as “the first to draw world attention” to the plight of ...
Father François Ponchaud, a member of the Paris Foreign Missions (MEP) society who served the Church in Cambodia for 56 years, died on Jan. 17. He was 86. Ponchaud died in MEP priests’ retirement ...