5/12/2023 0 Comments Cambodia by François Ponchaud![]() It has been translated into more than 70 languages. Father Francois Ponchaud had been in Cambodia for five years when he was carried into action by the political upheaval of 1970, a forerunner of the hostilities that would soon tear the country apart.Ī Roman Catholic priest with Paris Foreign Missions, Ponchaud may have been remembered mainly for his research into Buddhism and Cambodian culture as well as the more than 100 publications he produced in Khmer to present Christianity within the Cambodian context.īut as he turned into a witness as well as an actor in the Cambodian drama of the 1970s, his name became linked with the country and the Khmer Rouge regime whose atrocities he was the first to describe in a book in 1977.Įntitled “Cambodia, Year Zero”-words that would later be used repeatedly to explain the state in which the Pol Pot government reduced the country-Ponchaud’s book was based on accounts from Cambodian refugees and Khmer Rouge radio broadcasts. ![]()
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