BANGKOK — Soldiers armed with assault rifles fought running street battles with anti-government protesters in Bangkok on Monday as unrest spread through a wider swath of the Thai capital and the chief of Thailand’s armed forces vowed to use “every means to end the chaos.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/world/asia/14thai.html?_r=1&hp
I understand that this cycle has been going on for a while. Any insight on the source of this? Did higher food or oil prices have a role in kicking it off? What's the narrative?