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 ...

Cambodia's government approved a draft law that will jail for five years anyone denying atrocities, including genocide, ...

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

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.

Under the seven-article bill, people who ‘deny the truth of the bitter past’ will be jailed between one to five years and ...

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

Cambodia’s decades-long effort to clear unexploded munitions has had to partially suspend operations after the United States ...

Former information minister Khieu Kanharith credited Ponchaud as “the first to draw world attention” to the plight of ...

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 ...

The draft law, which imposes penalties on those who deny these crimes, was approved during a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime ...

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 today. The ultra-Maoist movement ...