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François Ponchaud 🪦

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One of the last westerners to leave Cambodia in 75 who made it his mission to blow the whistle on KR extractions died yesterday

RIP Monsieur
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Ponchaud
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A great loss. He had a deep knowledge of cambodian culture, was a friend of Prince / King Sihanouk and even translated the Bible in khmer. What a life he lived !
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Oh, hell, they are dropping like flies

I guess it happens as we get older

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François Ponchaud, Who Alerted World to Cambodian Atrocities, Dies at 85

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/worl ... -dead.html

The Rev. François Ponchaud, a French Catholic priest whose book “Cambodia: Year Zero” alerted the world to the atrocities being committed by the communist Khmer Rouge that would eventually take the lives of nearly two million people, died on Jan. 17 in Lauris, France. He was 85.

His death was announced by the Paris Foreign Missions Society, of which Father Ponchaud was a member. The society said he died at its retirement facility. The cause was cancer, a friend, the historian Henri Locard, said.

In 1975, at the end of the Indochina war, only sketchy accounts of the Khmer Rouge horrors had reached the outside world, and they were widely dismissed by those in the West who wanted to put the conflicts in Vietnam and Cambodia behind them.

Father Ponchaud, a priest who had spent a decade in Cambodia and was fluent in the language, was expelled along with other foreigners when the Khmer Rouge took control of the country and sealed its borders.
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His intervention starts at 30;00. November 1979. English subtitles work well (in the settings)

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I've just find this one (with automatically generated english subtitles), it's about how he lived the 4/17/1975, interesting inside point of view.

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