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2006 Malagasy coup d'état attempt

An alleged coup d'état attempt occurred in Madagascar on November 18, 2006, during the lead-up to the December 3 presidential election, when retired army General Andrianafidisoa, also known as Fidy (and a previous Director General of OMNIS), declared military rule.

Cherilee Taylor

She has had guest appearances in several TV series, such as Starhunter 2300, 1-800-Missing, Earth: Final Conflict, Martial Law, Power Play, and Animorphs.

Film awards in the Philippines

In 1975, the first Metropolitan Film Festival was held in commemoration of the the third year anniversary of the continuation of Martial Law.

Frank Steer

After the war, he stayed in the army and served in the Second World War as a major appointed Provost Marshal of Hawaii during its period under martial law.

Gwei Lun-Mei

Set partly against the sombre reality of Taiwan’s martial law period (1949-1987) and partly against the newfound freedom that the once-oppressed protagonists are struggling to cope with, the film charts the tortured emotional lives of its three characters (played by Gwei, Joseph Chang and Rhydian Vaughan) over the decades.

Hanna Krall

Shortly after, Wojciech Jaruzelski, then Prime Minister of the former People's Republic of Poland, declared martial law, Krall left "Polityka" and wrote articles for the "Gazeta Wyborcza" some time later.

Lee Wilder Thomas

The excitement of booming fields in three counties fostered crime and social problems that forced Governor Pat Morris Neff, on January 12, 1922, to order martial law for Justice Precinct No. 4 in Limestone County and No. 5 in Freestone County to deal with robberies, gambling, and alcohol sales.

Luke Kruytbosch

Kruytbosch did voice-over work on commercials, including a national ad for Hertz and also voiced-over racecalls on television shows including CBS's Martial Law and The Sentinel.

Premier of the People's Republic of China

In 1989, then Premier Li Peng, in cooperation with the then Chairman of the Central Military Commission Deng Xiaoping, was able to use the office of the Premier to declare martial law in Beijing and order the military crackdown of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

Provisional Constitutional Order

Political tensions arising after the border incidents with India that nearly pushed the two countries at the brink of the war, Chairman Joint chiefs and chief of army staff General Pervez Musharraf immediately imposed the martial law against conservative Prime minister Nawaz Sharif, on 14 October 1999.

RayStorm

Humans explored space, and within 100 years Earth established a twenty-colony Star Federation extending to Orion, with each colony kept under martial law.

Riots in Sri Lanka

The British Governor of Ceylon Sir Robert Chalmers, fearing he might lose control of the colony, on advice of Brigadier General Malcolm, came down with a heavy hand on the Sinhalese community, declared martial law on 2 June 1915 and ordered the police and the Army to shoot without a trial anyone who they deemed a rioter.

Ryszard Musielak

During the martial law Musielak was arrested and he spent a year in prisons in Potulice and Strzebielinek.

Shattered Union

In response, President Adams uses the Homeland Security Act and declares martial law (in reality, there is no such provision in the Homeland Security Act) on many areas of the country, but it is particularly concentrated in the Midwest.

Shi Yan Xu

On October 1, 2006, the world final was televised in a four-hour live broadcast judged by action star and former Beijing Wushu Team Member Jacky Wu Jing (Sha Po Lang, Tai Chi Master, Legend of Zu) Director Stanley Tong (The Myth, Martial Law, Mr. Magoo) and Director Wang Xiaoshuai (Frozen).

Songshan District, Taipei

The bodies of many residents and political victims from Taiwan's martial law period are buried in hillside cemeteries that now overlook the Taipei 101 shopping district.

Teofisto Guingona, Jr.

Guingona was a delegate to the 1971 Constitutional Convention and when martial law was declared in 1972 by President Ferdinand Marcos, he resisted the abuses of the regime, serving as a human rights lawyer.

The Year of the Quiet Sun

They also learn that the nation is under martial law after a failed attempt by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to take over the government by coup d'état, one thwarted because of the advance knowledge the time travelers will bring back of it.

Wajihuddin Ahmed

Prior to be elevated as Senior Justice of the Supreme Court, he briefly tenured as the Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court from 1998 until refusing take oath in opposition to martial law in 1999.

Wen Wei Po

On 21 May 1989, as concerns in Hong Kong about the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests were reaching fever pitch, the paper took a principled position opposing the enforcement of martial law by the PLA amid pro-democracy protests by students and political activists.


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1935–36 Iraqi Shia revolts

Martial law was declared in Diwaniyya by Bakr Sidqi and the full power of the Iraqi airforce and army was deployed against the Shia tribesmen.

Abraham Sarmiento, Jr.

As editor-in-chief of the Philippine Collegian, Sarmiento melded the University of the Philippines student newspaper into an independent though solitary voice against martial law rule at a time when the mass media was under the control of the Marcos government.

Alfred Shea Addis

As the potential for civil war heated up, the abolitionists increased their stronghold in Leavenworth and violence broke out there when Missouri seceded from the Union in November 1862, prompting Brigadier General James G. Blunt to proclaim martial law.

Cry of Tarlac

The previous year, eight provinces were put under martial law by the Spanish government in Manila.

DWAL

However, with the declaration of Martial Law on September 21, 1972 under Ferdinand Marcos, the station was closed under strict censorship imposed by him.

Ernesto Maceda

He then went to exile in the United States after breaking with President Marcos over the Martial Law declaration and eventually became the adviser of the late Sen. Benigno S. Aquino.

Frankie Evangelista

First hired as a radio personality, he rose to become a vital force in ABS-CBN's television shows as well, with credits that include news (TV Patrol, Hoy Gising!) and even entertainment (as an executive producer on the pre-Martial Law comedy show Super Laff-In).

Hasan Hafeez Ahmed

Vice Admiral Muzaffar Hassan, along with the Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Gul Hassan Khan and Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal (General) Abdul Rahim Khan, were sacked by Judge Advocate General Branch by the order of then-civilian Martial Law Administrator President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in March 1972.

Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent

On 16 August 1644 he became a commissioner of martial law and on 24 August be became Lord Lieutenant of Rutland.

Horacio Morales

A prominent figure in the underground left during the martial law rule of President Ferdinand Marcos, he later served as Secretary of Agrarian Reform during the presidency of Joseph Estrada.

Iftikhar Ahmad

Ahmad served multiple jail terms under the martial law governments for various violations of LFO.

Martial Law 2: Undercover

Martial Law 2: Undercover (also known as Karate Cop and Martial Law II) is a 1991 martial arts film written by Richard Brandes and Jiles Fitzgerald, produced by Steve Cohen, directed by Kurt Anderson and stars Jeff Wincott, Cynthia Rothrock, Paul Johansson, L. Charles Taylor, Sherrie Rose, and Billy Drago.

Masataka Ida

Along with Major Kenji Hatanaka and a few others, he was one of the chief conspirators in a plot to overthrow the government of Prime Minister Kantarō Suzuki; they wished to see the institution of martial law under War Minister Korechika Anami.

Meralco

President Corazon Aquino reverted company ownership to the López Family, without them paying for the state-funded improvements done during Martial Law.

Military Council

Military Council of National Salvation, a military group administering Poland during the period of martial law, 1981–1983

Muhammad Zia

Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924 – 1988), 4th Chief Martial Law Administrator and 6th President of Pakistan

Negative campaigning

Similar backlash happened to the Liberal Party in the 2006 federal election for running an attack ad that suggested that Conservative leader Stephen Harper would use Canadian soldiers to patrol Canadian cities, and impose some kind of martial law.

Nikolaos Triantafyllakos

On September 26, martial law was proclaimed, following the revolt of 8,000 troops and their officers in Thessaloniki, who sent word to Athens demanding the abdication of King Constantine and the imprisonment of the former prime ministers, Dimitrios Gounaris and Nikolaos Stratos.

Pangunahing Balita

Pangunahing Balita (Headliner) is the first Filipino language newscast of ABC 5 from 1962 to 1972 when DZTM-TV-5 was closed down due to Martial Law.

Philippine presidential election and referendum, 1981

The lifting of martial law was speculated due to the election of U.S. President Ronald Reagan, of whom Marcos wanted to have close relationship with, and the arrival of Pope John Paul II in the country.

Raymond H. Fleming

Seen as an ally of the political organization run by Senator Huey Long and Governor O.K. Allen, in 1934 Fleming deployed National Guardsmen to the offices of election officials in New Orleans when Allen declared martial law during a disputed election between the Long-Allen group and a group headed by Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley.

Sekarmadji Maridjan Kartosuwirjo

Declaration of martial law in 1957 and establishment of Guided Democracy by Sukarno in 1959 proved to be a turning point for Darul Islam's fortunes.

Taiwanese identity

During the period of Martial Law, when the Kuomintang (KMT) was the only authorised party to govern Taiwan, the KMT government has "modified" Taiwan's history from a Greater China perspective and lump the pre-existing Hoklo and Hakka with the Mainlanders as Chinese, who came to Taiwan and forced aboriginal communities into the mountains.

William H. Murray

During his tenure as governor in years of the Great Depression, he established a record for the number of times he used the National Guard to perform duties in the state and for declaring martial law.