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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 resigns from the international war crimes tribunal in Cambodia.^[2]

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.^[3]

July

July 8 - Cambodian health officials identify Enterovirus 71 as a possible cause for an outbreak in which at least 64 children have 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 - 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 (about € 900,000) in a solidary fine of 30 million SKr.^[6]
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.^[7]
September 12 - A Cambodian journalist is found murdered in the boot of his car, after reporting on illegal logging.^[8]

October

October 15 - Former King of Cambodia Norodom Sihanouk dies in Beijing, China, at the age of 89.^[9]
October 17 - The body of former King Norodom Sihanouk is returned to Cambodia.^[10]

December

December 8 - Eight people, including four children, are killed after fire rages through a popular night market in Siem Reap.^[11]

Deaths

October 15 - Norodom Sihanouk

References

↑ "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. 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. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
↑ "Pirate Bay co-founder Warg arrested in Cambodia". 2 September 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
↑ "Pirate Bay co-founder Warg to be deported from Cambodia". 4 September 2013. 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. 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. Retrieved 13 January 2015.

2012 in Asia

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Dependencies and other territories	British Indian Ocean Territory Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Hong Kong Macau

Years in Cambodia (1953–present)

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1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989

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1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969

1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959

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