1976 in Cambodia

← 1975 1974 1973 1976 in Cambodia → 1977 1978 1979
Decades:	1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
See also:	Other events of 1976 List of years in Cambodia

The following lists events that happened during 1976 in Cambodia .

Incumbents

• Chairman of State Presidium: Norodom Sihanouk (until 11 April), Khieu Samphan (starting 11 April)
• Prime Minister:
  • until 4 April: Penn Nouth
  • 4 April-14 April: Khieu Samphan
  • 14 April-27 September: Pol Pot
  • 27 September-25 October: Nuon Chea
  • starting 25 October: Pol Pot

Events

January

• January 6 - The government of Democratic Kampuchea was proclaimed and constituted as a Communist People's Republic, and a 250-member Assembly of the Representatives of the People of Kampuchea (PRA) was selected in March to choose the collective leadership of a State Presidium, the chairman of which became the head of state within the CPK, the Paris-educated leadership of Pol Pot (Saloth Sâr) was in control over Cambodia which had become Southeast Asia's secretive and most isolated country from the rest of the world after North Korea which proceeded to implement the policy of Year Zero led by Angkar and its Khmer Rouge cadres, with these relationships were based on shared Marxist-Leninist and Maoist ideology, Democratic Kampuchea had very close ties with North Korea and China.

March

• March 20 - Angkar had won total of 515 candidates for the 250 seats of Kampuchean People's Representative Assembly during the 1976 Cambodian general election with Pol Pot elected as the General Secretary, while Khieu Samphan was elected as President of the State Presidium, with Sihanouk resigned as the Head of State while he kept placed under house arrest by the Khmer Rouge and was headed to overseas including Pyongyang and Beijing.

May

• May 1 - Tuol Svay Prey High School had transformed into "Security Prison 21" or S-21 was opened which became an extermination center, death camp and human slaughterhouse facility where they are eventually taken one-by-one by Angkar that allows people, even for the Khmer Rouge guards to torture and kill others which include political prisoners, party cadres along with their entire extended families and foreigners from outsiders which became westerners, even spies from the CIA or neighboring Vietnam as enemies of the state by the Maoist organization of Pol Pot, with the executions first took place in the Killing Fields at Choeung Ek.

Unknown dates

• Tuol Svay Prey High School once named after a royal ancestor of King Norodom Sihanouk had turned into an extermination camp, torture, execution center, human slaughterhouse and prison renamed the complex "Tuol Sleng Prison" or "Security Prison 21" (S-21) and construction began to adapt the prison for the inmates: the buildings in the deserted capital city of Phnom Penh were enclosed in electrified barbed wire, the classrooms converted into tiny prison and torture chambers, and all windows were covered with iron bars and barbed wire to prevent escapes and suicides once they are arrested and detained as political enemies, dissidents, party cadres including their entire extended families, soldiers of Lon Nol government as well as academics, doctors, teachers, students, factory workers, monks, engineers, etc, brought en masse to be interrogated and later executed at Choeung Ek near the killing field after S-21 has a long strict set of rules that was completely enforced by Angkar.