Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva refuse to resign and the red protestors refuse to accept new election plan from PM Abhisit, causing military and police to clear the protestors.
The anti-government protesters, known as the Red Shirts, have demanded that Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva resigns, dissolves parliament and calls new elections.
Drawn mostly from the rural and urban poor, the protesters are supporters of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra, pictured, deposed in a coup in 2006.
Thaksin - also formerly owner of Manchester City football team - is currently on the run after being accused of corruption.
Many of his supporters hail from the impoverished north and north-east.
They accuse the government of colluding with the royalist elite and meddling with the judiciary to bring down previous coalitions.
The Red Shirts say Abhisit's coalition government came to power through manipulation of the courts and the backing of the powerful military.
They claim it symbolises a national elite indifferent to their plight.
TIMELINE OF CRISIS
March 12 - Protesters converge on Bangkok
March 14 - Up to 150,000 protesters hold mass rally at the Phan Fah bridge in Bangkok's old quarter
March 17 - Protesters splash bottles of their own blood outside prime minister's home and office as a sign of their 'sacrifice for democracy'
March 29 - Two days of televised talks between the government and protest leaders end without agreement. Red shirts vow to continue their fight
April 3 - Protesters seize the Rachaprasong intersection in downtown Bangkok, which is packed with shopping malls and hotels
April 6 - Up to 90,000 red shirts defy government orders by holding a mobile Bangkok rally in pickup trucks and on motorcycles
April 8 - State of emergency declared in Bangkok after red shirts force their way into parliament
April 9 - Protesters lay siege to Thaicom satellite earth station in Pathum Thani, seeking to get a blocked TV channel back on air
April 10 - Troops attempt to break up protest at Phan Fah bridge, 25 people killed and more than 800 wounded in the country's worst clashes in 18 years
April 14 - Red shirts consolidate protests into one site at Rachaprasong
April 16 - Four red shirt leaders escape, one by scaling down a building wall on a cable, after police commandoes try to raid their hotel but are overwhelmed by protesters
April 22 - One woman is killed and more than 70 civilians injured when five M-79 grenades are launched near pro-government demonstrators in Bangkok's Silom Road business district
April 28 - A soldier is killed and about 20 protesters wounded when clashes erupt after security forces try to block a mobile rally on a highway in Bangkok's outskirts
May 3 - Abhisit announces a five-point reconciliation road map, culminating in a Nov 14 election
May 4 - Red shirts respond, saying they accept Abhisit's offer, but object to election date
May 7 - Gun and grenade attacks in the heavily guarded Silom area kill two police and wound 13, among them 10 police officers
May 11 - Red shirt leaders announce they agree to Abhisit's peace plan but make several demands that the government rejects
May 12 - Abhisit tells red shirts the deal is off and cancels plans for November 14 election, giving demonstrators until midnight to end their protest or face eviction by force
May 13 - The military vows to use armoured vehicles to block roads around the protest site to prevent more demonstrators from joining the rally, which climbs to almost 20,000 after leaders call for reinforcements
May 19 - The army storms the protester camp in downtown Bangkok forcing Red Shirt leaders to surrender
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