BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand began its second day under martial law Wednesday with little visible military presence on the streets of Bangkok as residents tried to make sense of the dramatic turn of events after six months of anti-government protests and political turmoil.

A flurry of meetings were planned behind closed doors among senior government officials, opposition party leaders, the Election Commission and others a day after the country’s powerful army chief invoked the military’s expanded powers and issued more than a dozen edicts that included broad powers of censorship over the media, the Internet and vaguely defined threats to prosecute opponents.