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PM rules out martial law
News, Published on 24/11/2020
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Monday rebutted speculation that there could be another military coup or the enforcement of martial law to quell the current spate of anti-government protests ahead of a planned mass event in front of the Crown Property Bureau on Wednesday.
PM rejects martial law talk
News, Post Reporters, Published on 26/11/2020
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Wednesday reiterated that martial law will not be invoked to quell the anti-government protests, saying the normal existing measures are enough to deal with those who break the law.
PM rejects martial law talk
Gary Boyle, Published on 26/11/2020
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Wednesday again said that martial law will not used to stop the anti-government protests, as protesters plan five days of rallies.
South Korean president declares martial law
News Agencies, Published on 03/12/2024
» SEOUL - South Korea’s president has declared emergency martial law in the country, accusing opposition forces of anti-state activities.
Korea martial law lessons for Thailand
Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 10/12/2024
» Last week, South Korea experienced a titanic political shift when President Yoon Suk-yeol imposed martial law late on Tuesday night. The move lasted just over six hours before it was lifted, making it one of the shortest-lived martial law declarations in modern political history. It was lucky because it started late at night and ended early in the morning. Had it occurred during the day, the outcome could have been very different.
Martial law stirs up division in Pattani
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 25/09/2018
» PATTANI: More than 50 local people staged a protest Monday against Prince of Songkla University's Pattani campus after a youth group, consisting of its students, issued a statement decrying last week's invocation of martial law in two tambons of Pattani's Nong Chik district.
Misinformation shrouds Philippine martial law era horrors
AFP, Published on 20/09/2022
» MANILA: American lawyer Thomas Jones still remembers the scars of Philippine torture victims he interviewed for Amnesty International inside the country's detention centres in 1975 during the rule of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
MFP-led panel eyes martial law review
News, Post Reporters, Published on 20/06/2023
» The eight-party coalition's working group on building peace in the deep South on Monday agreed it would ask the new government to review whether it is still necessary to enforce martial law and the emergency decree in the region.
The high cost of Yoon's martial law
Oped, Takatoshi Ito, Published on 20/12/2024
» When South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol abruptly declared martial law late on Dec 3, claiming that it was necessary to enable him to eliminate "anti-state" forces, street protests erupted almost immediately.
Philippines' Duterte threatens martial law-like virus crackdown
AFP, Published on 17/04/2020
» MANILA - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened a martial law-like crackdown to stop people flouting a virus lockdown in the nation's capital.