In February 1977, François Ponchaud, a French Catholic missionary who had a deep knowledge of Cambodia, published his now classic Cambodia Year Zero, which documented the massacres.

The nature of the new regime was first disclosed by French Priest François Ponchaud in his 1977 Book Cambodige annee zero (Cambodia: Year Zero). Fr Ponchaud was in the French Embassy at the time of ...

Reste que certains virent clair. À l’image du prêtre François Ponchaud, témoin de l’entrée des révolutionnaires dans la capitale et de l’exode forcée de la population.

Photo Le DL/C.M. Mercredi 19 mars, dans la salle paroissiale de Sallanches, plus de 100 personnes parmi ses connaissances et amis se sont réunies pour rendre hommage au père François Ponchaud.

Le père François Ponchaud (ici en 2016) s’est éteint à l’âge de 85 ans. Il est l’auteur de Cambodge année zéro, un livre sur le régime des Khmers rouges.

French priest Fr François Ponchaud knew better, though. A missionary in Cambodia, he was among the last Westerners to leave following the Khmer Rouge takeover. And he wrote a book, Cambodia: Year Zero ...

Father François Ponchaud in 2005 examining photos at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, of people tortured and killed during Khmer Rouge rule in the 1970s.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Lives lived: François Ponchaud, a French Catholic priest who alerted the world to the atrocities being committed in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge, died at 86. CONVERSATION STARTERS Gary He/McAtlas ...

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 Cambodia, and ...