Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
Military operation 19 May 2010 clearing UDD (red shirt) mass-occupation of Bangkok's Ratchaprasong commercial district under Abhisit-declared emergency-decree regime and CRES command. Total April-May 2010 toll 91+ dead (including soldiers, civilians, journalists) and 2,000+ injured; Central World shopping complex and ~35 other buildings burned during and after the clearance. Triggered prolonged political legitimacy crisis for Democrat-coalition government. TRCT final report (September 2012) documented command-responsibility issues at multiple levels; subsequent prosecutions were limited. Central event of 2006-2014 colour-coded political conflict cycle.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.