Filipinos Protest Martial Law Date

AP Online;  September 21, 1999 ;     480 words ......09-21-1999 Filipinos Protest Martial Law Date MANILA, Philippines (AP...placed the Philippines under martial law with noisy protests Tuesday...associates. Marcos imposed martial law on Sept. 21, 1972, padlocking...fact that my husband declared martial law for the good ...

Jaruzelski to Be Charged for Martial Law

AP Online;  December 13, 2005 ;     426 words ......lay pictures people who died during martial law to mark the 24th anniversary of the beginning of martial law in Warsaw, Poland, Monday evening Dec...Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, who imposed martial law on December 13, 1981 to crack down...

Enrile: No to any martial law declaration.(Main News)

Manila Bulletin;  August 26, 2002 ;     333 words ......much less support, any declaration of martial law even if the present political and economic...recalled that Marcos' declaration of martial law was based on a study by the best legal...Marcos alone who ruled the country under martial law for almost a decade, from 1972 to 1981...

PIECE OF CAKE; In truth and reality, martial law is no law

Filipino Reporter;  October 27, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Antonio C. Filipino Reporter 10-27-2005 "Martial law exists when military authorities superseding...article by Rey P. Naval captioned, "Martial law? Who cares," published in the Filipino...14-20, 2005. There are two types of martial law in jurisprudence. Under American and...

Polish Parliament Spares Jaruzelski; Ex-Communist Chief Need Not Stand...

The Washington Post;  October 24, 1996 ;     443 words ......jailings of activists after they declared martial law nearly 15 years ago. As expected, former...other authors of the Dec. 13, 1981, martial law declaration. Jaruzelski, who led Poland...vote. He repeated his contention that martial law kept the Soviet military from stepping...

U.S. tacitly OKd martial law plan, Poland contends

Chicago Sun-Times;  June 5, 1986 ;     491 words ......told U.S. officials of plans to impose martial law a month before it began in 1981, and...United States allowed Poland to impose martial law as an alternative preferable to a Soviet...self-serving attempt to lay the blame for martial law in Poland somewhere else than where...

Thai Democrats demand lifting of martial law

Xinhua News Agency;  October 23, 2007 ;     322 words ...Thai Democrats demand lifting of martial law BANGKOK, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- Thailand...Tuesday urged the government to lift the martial law in most of the provinces which remain...should review the question of lifting martial law, imposed after a coup on September19...

VOA NEWS: TAIWAN MARKS 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF LIFTING OF MARTIAL LAW

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 12, 2007 ;     700+ words ......of Taiwan, Chiang Ching-kuo, lifted martial law, ending four decades of restrictions...and effects of the decision to lift martial law 20 years ago. Shortly after Chinese...infrastructure. That's why they needed martial law to rule." Since 1949, Taiwan has been...

Filipinos fear martial law // Unrest clouds Aquino vow of civilian rule

Chicago Sun-Times;  September 22, 1987 ;     506 words ...MANILA Memories of martial law still haunt the Philippines, 15...here. The 15th anniversary of the martial-law declaration was observed Monday...the worst sufferers under Marcos's martial law, has vowed to uphold democracy despite...

3rd Ld-Writethru: Thailand partly lifts martial law

Xinhua News Agency;  October 30, 2007 ;     231 words ......Ld-Writethru: Thailand partly lifts martial law BANGKOK, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- The cabinet...Thailand decided Tuesday to partly lift the martial law which was imposed after last year's...decided at the cabinet meeting to lift the martial law in 221 districts throughout the country...

Thai government to lift martial law in 41 provinces including Bangkok

Xinhua News Agency;  November 28, 2006 ;     294 words ...Thai government to lift martial law in 41 provinces including Bangkok...government has decided to lift martial law, imposed shortly after the Sept...National Security (CNS) to lift martial law in some parts of the country...

Thais Lift Martial Law in Some Areas

AP Online;  November 28, 2006 ;     353 words ......military-installed government agreed Tuesday to lift martial law in Bangkok and in more than half of...provinces, the defense minister said. Martial law was imposed after Prime Minister Thaksin...bloodless coup. For practical purposes, martial law in the designated areas ended ...

CHINA CRACKS DOWN ON PROTESTS IN TIBET, IMPOSES MARTIAL LAW

The Boston Globe;  March 8, 1989 ;     269 words ...BEIJING - China imposed martial law on Lhasa, the Tibetan capital...that China has publicly declared martial law. The nationally televised nightly...order." "Any person who defies martial law or who instigates others to do...

TAIWAN ENDS 38 YEARS OF MARTIAL LAW, FREES 23 DISSIDENTS

The Boston Globe;  July 15, 1987 ;     327 words ...TAIPEI - Taiwan ended 38 years of martial law yesterday and called the move...political prisoners jailed under martial law, and said only 30 dissidents were still imprisoned. The lifting of martial law means opposition political parties...

VOA NEWS: THAI LEADER SAYS NO PLANS FOR NOW TO END MARTIAL LAW

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 14, 2006 ;     376 words ......no plans for the time being to lift martial law. The government hinted last week that...minister was assured that the imposition of martial law will not be discussed at the APEC meeting...ruling generals in Thailand to lift martial law quickly. Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont...