François Ponchaud, Who Alerted World to Cambodian Atrocities, Dies at 85
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.
The Diplomat3d
Obituary: François Ponchaud, French Missionary Who Alerted the World to the Khmer Rouge
Ponchaud’s 1977 book “Cambodge, année zero” was one of the first detailed accounts of the horrors that unfolded after the ...
UCA News11d
French missionary remembered for exposing Khmer Rouge
Former information minister Khieu Kanharith credited Ponchaud as “the first to draw world attention” to the plight of ...
La Croix11d
Remembering the missionary who exposed the Cambodian genocide
Father François Ponchaud, MEP, who exposed the Khmer Rouge atrocities in Cambodia during the 1970s, passed away January 17 at ...
Asia News13d
The death of Fr Ponchaud, witness to Phnom Penh under the Khmer Rouge
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 ...
The Cambodia Daily2d
Obituary: François Ponchaud, French Missionary Who Alerted the World to the Khmer Rouge
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 ...