![]() ![]() Ponchaud explain his sources for previous comments that during the civil war, the Khmer Rouge evacuated citizens from conquered areas, killed local officials, burned houses, and took people into the jungle. International Senior Assistant Co-Prosecutor Vincent de Wilde requested that Mr. ![]() ![]() Prosecution Begins Examination of François Ponchaud Khieu Samphan was the only Case 002 defendant present in court, with co-accused Nuon Chea monitoring proceedings audio-visually from a remote holding cell, due to his health problems. Today, 270 teachers and students from Kampot province watched the proceedings from inside the courtroom. Ponchaud, who was in Phnom Penh when the city fell to the Khmer Rouge on April 17, 1975, after a prolonged civil war with the republican regime. Prosecutors, civil party lawyers, and defense attorneys questioned Mr. François Ponchaud, a French priest and long-time resident of Cambodia who wrote the 1977 book Cambodia: Year Zero, continued his testimony in Case 002 at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Wednesday, April 10, 2013. ![]()
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