Pom Mahakan Residents Lose Eviction Battle
10 APRIL 2017 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Abandoned and boarded up homes in Pom Mahakan in Bangkok. The people who lived in the homes were evicted in March. The final evictions of the remaining families in Pom Mahakan, a slum community in a 19th century fort in Bangkok, have started. City officials are moving the residents out of the fort. NGOs and historic preservation organizations protested the city's action but city officials did not relent and started evicting the remaining families in early March. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
