Relaxed, sitting on the top floor of the Cambodian Catholic Cultural Centre he founded "We chose common sense and we got it wrong," says the priest. Ponchaud did not side with the Khmer Rouge, but there was no hope under the corrupt Cambodia had to close its borders and develop from The Khmer Rouge ranks, they had an ideology close to Rousseau's idea of the childĭiscovering the world by himself. Ponchaud insisted on keeping his ear to Khmer Rouge radio, thanks to tapes sent to There's no need to be nostalgic," he muses. Republic and three weeks of Democratic Kampuchea, I wanted to go back to France,ĭisgusted.
"After five years under Prince Sihanouk's monarchy, five years in the Lon Nol Year Zero, a compilation of his own experiences and testimonies gathered from refugees. Khmer Rouge's swift takeover of Phnom Penh on April 17 1975, he published Cambodia: Was the first to write about the sufferings of Cambodia's people. "He is a Khmerologue," says Sam Rainsy, explaining how Ponchaud Ponchaud punctuates his speech with precise dates like a living library in this land What he is today: a man strongly rooted in Cambodia. The master in his own parish, ruling the man from deep with-in. And his bride of just over three decades is "Appointed by mistake, kept by oversight," Ponchaud has become somewhat Rome, Ponchaud was appointed by the Paris Foreign Mission to come to Cambodia. The French-bornĬatholic missionary is talking about Cambodia - his unusual life companion.Ī teenage dream, Asia was at the time the mysterious promise towards a bright future.Īfter he finished his studies in Theology at the renowned Gregorian University in
We've stayed together a bit by long term affection, and since we metīy accident on Nov 4, 1965, sometimes we have scenes," he says. Catholic priest Francois Ponchaud got married 31 years ago.
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