4 days ago · 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. François worked with his parents on their ...

François Ponchaud (French: [fʁɑ̃swa pɔ̃ʃo]; 8 February 1939 – 17 January 2025) was a French Catholic priest and missionary to Cambodia. He was best known for his documentation of the genocide which occurred under the Khmer Rouge (KR), and for being one of the first people to expose the human rights abuses being carried out at the time.

22 hours ago · 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.

4 days ago · François Ponchaud, the French missionary who revealed the reality of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge to the outside world, has died aged 85.

Jan 20, 2025 · Father François Ponchaud, MEP, who exposed the Khmer Rouge atrocities in Cambodia during the 1970s, passed away January 17 at 85. He helped integrate Cambodian refugees in France and contributed ...

3 days ago · 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 was the first to provide an authoritative account of the horrors committed by Pol Pot’s genocidal regime which ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.

4 days ago · 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 said, until he was 20. “We had 12 cows, pigs and chickens; we had a lot of fruits and berries — strawberries, apples and pears,” he told The ...

Jan 17, 2025 · François Ponchaud, prêtre missionnaire français, l’homme qui a révélé au monde la barbarie des Khmers rouges, est mort, le 17 janvier à Lauris (Vaucluse), la maison de retraite des pères ...

4 days ago · In 1965, François Ponchaud, a young priest with the Paris Foreign Missions Society (MEP), arrived in Cambodia, a small peaceful country with a population of seven million at the time. He immediately began studying the Khmer language and culture to be able to celebrate Mass and teach in the local language. “After Vatican II, he refused to say ...

Jan 18, 2025 · Father François Ponchaud, a member of the Paris Foreign Missions (MEP) society who served the Church in Cambodia for 56 years, died on Jan. 17. He was 86. Ponchaud died in MEP priests’ retirement facility in Lauris, France, where …