2012 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.

  March

• March 19 - Swiss Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet resigns from the international war crimes tribunal in Cambodia.

  May

• May 16 - Cambodian police and soldiers clash with villagers after attempting to evict them from their land, where a Russian plantation project is to be headquartered. A teenage girl has reportedly been killed.

  July

• July 8 - Cambodian health officials identify Enterovirus 71 as a possible cause for an outbreak in which at least 64 children have died.
• 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.

  September

• September 2 - Police in Cambodia announce that Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, one of the founders of The Pirate Bay, was arrested on August 30 in Phnom Penh, enforcing a suspected Interpol warrant by his homeland Sweden. Warg has been sentenced in April 2012 by a court in Stockholm for copyright violations to 12 months in jail and his quarter share in a solidary fine of 30 million SKr.
• September 4 - Police in Cambodia say The Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm, who was arrested on Sunday, "is to be deported", saying it's up to Sweden to decide where and not specifying when. There is no extradition agreement between the two countries.
• September 12 - A Cambodian journalist is found murdered in the boot of his car, after reporting on illegal logging.

  October

• October 15 - Former King of Cambodia Norodom Sihanouk dies in Beijing, China, at the age of 89.
• October 17 - The body of former King Norodom Sihanouk is returned to Cambodia.

  December

• December 8 - Eight people, including four children, are killed after fire rages through a popular night market in Siem Reap.

  Deaths

• October 15 - Norodom Sihanouk