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 ...
It prescribed terms of imprisonment of six months to two years and fines ranging from one million to four million riel ($250 to $1,000) for those who denied Khmer Rouge crimes. The Office of the ...
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 ...
Father 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 ...
PHNOM PENH – As Cambodia prepares to commemorate Victory Over Genocide Day on January 7 – the date which marks the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979 – the Kingdom reflects on its journey of ...
Known around the world as a direct witness to the Khmer Rouge seizure of power in 1975, which forced him into exile, he wrote Cambodge année zéro (Cambodia: Year Zero), a key book on those ...
The Cambodian Mines Action Center, the agency that oversees demining operations, said the two men had been working to clear mines from a farmer’s rice field in northwestern Oddar Meanchey province, ...
which was an area of heavy fighting between the government and insurgent Khmer Rouge forces in the 1980s. The two, identified as Pov Nepin and Ouen Channara, died at the scene after the mine they ...