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.

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

Under draft legislation announced last week, anyone denying “the truth of the bitter past” could be imprisoned for up to five ...

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 ...

Under the law, Khmer Rouge deniers can be charged and jailed for terms of one-five years and subjected to fines of US$2,500 ...

A federal judge yesterday temporarily blocked an order by President Trump to freeze trillions of dollars in federal grants ...

A global abuse tracker has released a new list of 84 individuals charged with sex abuse, alleging many remain in active ...

There is something ironic in the fact that on the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz, the results of a new poll ...

Sen. John McCain said Steven Bradbury, whose legal memos authorized waterboarding, wrote "permission slips for torture." ...

During the Vietnam War, the US ordered a clandestine bombing campaign over large swathes of Cambodia. Read more at ...

The governments of Rwanda and South Africa must do everything possible to prevent any further escalation. Talks of war should ...

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