1977 in Cambodia

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

The following lists events that happened during 1977 in Cambodia .

Incumbents

• President: Khieu Samphan ^[1]
• Prime Minister: Pol Pot

Events

January

• January 6 - The first anniversary of the establishment of Democratic Kampuchea as the totalitarian society since the Fall of Phnom Penh after the Cambodian Civil War had ended, China and North Korea provided a significant support to Angkar and the Khmer Rouge, with China as the main backer while North Korea became lesser extent by its diplomatic relations with a very strong support of Communist allies who learned the same lines with Marxist-Leninist ideology in the Far East.

April

• April 17 - Pol Pot and his comrades had attended the second anniversary of the Fall of Phnom Penh against Lon Nol's government of the Khmer Republic and declaring a new policy called 1975 Year Zero which hastened its isolation from the rest of the world that became Southeast Asia's secretive state as Cambodia became a closed nation followed by Kim Il Sung's North Korea which revealed that "Angkar" as the secretive body exercising supreme power was known as Marxist–Leninist organization by the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) of which both Pyongyang and Beijing had trained the Khmer Rouge soldiers on its soil, stationed military advisors supplied with aid.

References

1. "Former Khmer Rouge leader arrested by UN-backed tribunal in Cambodia". UN News . 19 November 2007. Retrieved 26 November 2025.