Fr 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 devastation ...

“Beloved brothers, sisters, workers, youths, students, teachers and functionaries,” the Communist Party of Kampuchea’s clandestine radio proclaimed on April 16, 1975. “Now is the time! Here are our ...

Khmer New Year, celebrated from 13 to 15 April, is usually a time of joy. But in 1975, it marked the beginning of one of the darkest chapters in Cambodia’s history. That year’s celebration coincided ...

Qui m'aime me suive ! Sa Majesté des mouches In France with Madonna Bernadette Chirac, mémoires d'une femme libre Cinquante ans après l’entrée des Khmers rouges dans Phnom Penh, Le Figaro TV diffuse, ...

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 était le plus Cambodgien des Sallanchards ; peut-être le plus bouddhiste des ...

It may sound absurd at this point, but during the time of the Khmer Rouge regime many Western scholars discounted the reports of human rights atrocities in Cambodia. French priest Fr François Ponchaud ...

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 Khmer ...

Confusion in the U.S. after a Trump spending freeze. By Natasha Frost A federal judge yesterday temporarily blocked an order by President Trump to freeze trillions of dollars in federal grants and ...

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 the ...

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 ...