During the 1991-2 crisis, when the army took power by coup and was then ejected by street demonstrations, two political movements came of age. The first was a rural movement protesting against the decline of the agrarian economy and urban encroachment on natural resources. The second was a movement of largely urban middle-class activism demanding reforms in politics, bureaucracy, media, rights, social welfare, and much else. The interplay between these two movements shaped a new public politics through the 1990s.