A French Catholic priest, he wrote a book recounting horrors committed by the Khmer Rouge that were responsible for the ...
Ponchaud’s 1977 book “Cambodge, année zero” was one of the first detailed accounts of the horrors that unfolded after the ...
Father François Ponchaud, MEP, who exposed the Khmer Rouge atrocities in Cambodia during the 1970s, passed away January 17 at ...
Former information minister Khieu Kanharith credited Ponchaud as “the first to draw world attention” to the plight of ...
Phnom Penh (AFP) – Cambodia's government approved a draft law that will jail for five years anyone denying atrocities, including genocide, committed by the Khmer Rouge, a spokesman said Saturday.
Cambodia’s Cabinet has approved a draft bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying atrocities were carried out in the late 1970s under the rule of communist Khmer Rouge, whose brutal policies ...