When the Khmer Rouge seized Cambodia, Western intellectuals dismissed reports of atrocities as propaganda. But French missionary Fr François Ponchaud persisted in exposing the regime’s horrors. With ...

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Ponchaud’s 1977 book “Cambodge, année zero” was one of the first detailed accounts of the horrors that unfolded after the ...

In a lively and vibrant classroom at Prey Totueng Primary School in Prey Chhor district, Kampong Cham Province, Grade 1 teacher Ms. Theary Heang is teaching a Khmer language class, engaging their ...

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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 ...

He was fluent in the Cambodian language, Khmer, which he learned after arriving in the country in 1965. He began to compile stories from the Khmer Rouge killing fields. He added his own outrage ...

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.