The mass protests against the Thai government escalate. A brief chronology:
September 2005: Founding of the conservative People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), demonstrations of the "yellow shirts" be brought against Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, against the serious corruption allegations.
February 2006: A popular former Thaksin supporter, retired general Chamlong Srimuang, joins the protest movement.
April 2006 election victory of Thaksin supporters ("redshirts") annulled for irregularities in court.
September 2006: Military coup with apparent approval of the Crown during the stay abroad for Thaksin.
May 2007: ("Thais love Thais") party, Thaksin's Thai Rak Thai (TRT) was dissolved in court.
December 2007: TRT's successor organization of People's Power Party (PPP) in parliamentary elections strongest force.
January 2008: PPP leader Samak Sundaravej is Premier.
February 2008: Thaksin returns from exile.
May 2008: PAD launches new mass protests against the "puppet government" Thaksin.
July 2008: Thaksin settles with his wife to London.
August 2008: Mass demonstrations against government erfassendas country.
September 2008: Samak is discontinued, officially because of his television cooking show, with the prime minister was "incompatible". Thaksin's brother in law Somchai Wongsawat is Premier.
October 2008: New PAD mass protest with the dead and 380 wounded, Prosecutor General's Office requested PPP resolution because of vote buying. Thaksin sentenced in absentia to two years in prison for corruption.
November 2008: Tens of thousands of people demonstrating in Bangkok for Thaksin. Parliament building surrounded. Bangkok airport reception.
December 2008: Constitutional Court orders dissolution of the PPP because of electoral fraud. With the voices of deserters, the Parliament elects the Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.
April 2009: Government opponents force with assault on convention center demolition of the ASEAN summit in the resort of Pattaya. State of emergency in Bangkok and some parts of the country.
March 2010: Protesters redshirts flow together in Bangkok to Abhisit to hunt out of office. Protesters hurl with their own blood-filled containers on Abhisit's official residence.
April 2010: Government imposes state of emergency in Bangkok. Military and police try to evict protesters from the main business district, 25 people are killed, more than 800 injured.
May 2010: A compromise offered by the government fails. For new unrest more than 50 people are killed.
