Bangkok unrest: Like 1992 all over again

Same same, but different. I was in Bangkok during the 1992 political unrest and witnessed two or three days of terrible violence. The uncertain political situation in Thailand that re-emerged about two years ago suggested to me that another wave of demonstrations and street violence was likely. From my September 2006 blog post on Harvard Extended:

The moral of the story (besides avoiding riots and other civil unrest abroad) is that sometimes coups may replace a government without a single shot being fired, but violence occurs weeks or months later as the political situation changes and people react to the new order. The current coup is so far peaceful. But I would hardly call the situation stable.