Martial law in Cadasa

From March 17, 1957 to May 2, 1989, martial law was declared in the Republic of Cadasa. It's known as the era teruak militar (martial law era) in Cadasan. As much as 40,000 people were executed, 2,000 disappeared, and 300,000 imprisoned for being against the government. Human rights abuses were rampant.

Life under martial law
The first five years of martial law was marked by daily executions,arrests, and forced disappearances by Komilcad, the secret police. This decreased after the Tenjagor massacre of 1962 due to the and as a result, people acknowledged that martial law was necessary. Pro-democracy protests would not return until the 1978 Punlak protests, which led to Komilcad punishing dissidents again.

All media was controlled by the government. Cadasa Television Service was the sole TV channel. The PNC and the PC were the only legal parties. It was illegal to speak any language other than Cadasan in public due to fear that other languages would destroy national unity.

Lifting
pressured the Cadasan government to lift martial law in 1982. In 1987, Chinese-American citizen Matthew Wu was released from Toahok Security Prison in a vegetative state after being arrested at Louis Paraiyar Airport in 1967, which caused widespread criticism from the international community.

The final straw was the 1989 Bank of Cadasa scandal. It caused the 1989 Cadasan protests, which led to Aarush Chiu lifting martial law on May 2.