14 April 1974) was a French journalist based in Vientiane, Laos for Agence France-Presse who disappeared and was killed along with his translator and girlfriend in Cambodia when he attempted to be the first to obtain an interview with the Khmer Rouge's leaders during the Cambodian Civil War.
Filloux was hired in Southeast Asia to the AFP's main office in Paris, France, but went to Cambodia and was killed before he could assume his new post.
The forces operating inside Cambodia at the time were Vietnamese communists, Khmer Rouge, and Cambodian and US military, and the shifting lines of battle added to the uncertainty.
Japanese journalists Koki Ishiyama working for Kyodo News and freelance photojournalist Taicho Ichinose had already been killed by the Khmer Rouge at the time Filloux attempted the contact.
[10] The names of the journalists who died reporting the Cambodian war are engraved on a memorial that in February 2013 was unveiled in a public park in front of Phnom Penh's Hotel Le Royal, which was a meeting place for foreign correspondents in the 1970s.