• Suchinda, supported by the NPKC junta, brought military
units fully armed into the city and tried to suppress the
demonstrations by force
• Violence continued over three nights:
Soldiers shot into the crowd.
Building and buses were burnt.
Chamlong was arrested.
Televisions were controlled, but CNN & BBC broadcast
violence; Thai press also challlenged the censorship, and
published full reports.
Amidst the fear of civil war,
on the night of 20 May 1992,
King Bhumibol intervened:
he summoned Suchinda and
Chamlong to a televised audience,
and urged them to follow the peaceful
solution. This meeting resulted in Suchinda's resignation.