François Ponchaud, Who Alerted World to Cambodian Atrocities, Dies at 86
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 86. His death was announced by the Paris Foreign…