![]() ![]() Ponchaud always speaks from memory, occasionally pointing at a map of Cambodia and taking questions from the audience. ![]() ![]() ![]() For more than 10 years he has been giving free weekly lectures (in French) on Cambodia’s history.Īttending his evening talks –where subjects range from his memories of Cambodia in the 1970s to the theological comparisons between Buddhism and Christianity – feels a bit like being a student in a university-level course. Forced to leave Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge regime after being held in the French embassy compound for three weeks, the Frenchman returned in 1993 and holds Cambodian citizenship. Catholic priest François Ponchaud first arrived in the Kingdom in 1965 and recently testified at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). ![]()
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