2012 in Cambodia

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

The following lists events that happened during 2012 in Cambodia.

Incumbents

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

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

↑ "Life term for Cambodia Khmer Rouge jailer Duch". 3 February 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
↑ "Judge quits Cambodian UN-backed Khmer Rouge trial". 19 March 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
↑ "Cambodian forces evict more farmers from homes". 16 May 2012. Archived from the original on 13 January 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
↑ "Officials make break in baffling disease killing Cambodian children". 8 July 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
↑ "Cambodian troops 'fire at passenger jet': Thai army". 12 July 2012. Archived from the original on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
↑ "Pirate Bay co-founder Warg arrested in Cambodia". 2 September 2012. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
↑ "Cambodian journalist found murdered". 12 September 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
↑ "Cambodia former king Norodom Sihanouk dies aged 89". 15 October 2012. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
↑ "Cambodia mourns as King Norodom Sihanouk's body returns". 17 October 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
↑ "Eight People Killed In Cambodia Market Fire". 8 December 2012. Archived from the original on 10 Mar 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2015.