2012 in Cambodia

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List of years in Cambodia

The following lists events that happened during 2012 in Cambodia.

Incumbents

Events

February

March

  • March 19 - Swiss Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet 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

December

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

Deaths

References

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