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 resigns from the international Khmer Rouge war crimes trial.

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.

July

• July 8 - Cambodian health officials identify Enterovirus 71 as a possible cause for an outbreak in which at least 64 children 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 - Gottfrid Svartholm Warg is arrested in Phnom Penh due to an international arrest warrant.
• 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 late King Norodom Sihanouk's body is returned to Cambodia.

December

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

Deaths

• October 15 - Norodom Sihanouk