2012 in Cambodia

The following lists events that happened during 2012 in Cambodia.

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See also:	Other events of 2012 List of years in Cambodia

Incumbents

• Monarch: Norodom Sihamoni
• Prime Minister: Hun Sen

Events

February

• February 3 - The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia increases the sentence of Kang Kek Iew, or Duch, to life for running the Tuol Sleng prison camp under the Khmer Rouge.^[1]

March

• March 19 - Swiss Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet [fr] resigns from the international Khmer Rouge war crimes trial.^[2]

May

• May 16 - Cambodian police and soldiers skirmish with villagers after attempting to evict them from their land, where a Russian-owned plantation project was to be headquartered. A teenage girl was reportedly killed.^[3]

July

• July 8 - Cambodian health officials identify Enterovirus 71 as a possible cause for an outbreak in which at least 64 children died.^[4]
• July 13 - Cambodian troops aim machine gun fire at a Thai passenger jet, saying they believed it to be a spy plane, but do not hit the plane.^[5]

September

• September 2 - Gottfrid Svartholm Warg is arrested in Phnom Penh due to an international arrest warrant.^[6]
• September 12 - A Cambodian journalist is found murdered in the boot of his car, after reporting on illegal logging.^[7]

October

• October 15 - Former King of Cambodia Norodom Sihanouk dies in Beijing, China, at the age of 89.^[8]
• October 17 - The late King Norodom Sihanouk's body is returned to Cambodia.^[9]

December

• December 8 - Four children and four adults die after a night market fire in the town Siem Reap.^[10]

Deaths

• October 15 - Norodom Sihanouk