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12 JUNE 2017 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: TAWATCHAI VORAMAHAKUN, a community historian and leader in the Pom Mahakan slum, sweeps up between homes. Bangkok city officials are expected to tear the structure down in coming weeks. 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

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12 JUNE 2017 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: TAWATCHAI VORAMAHAKUN, a community historian and leader in the Pom Mahakan slum, sweeps up between homes. Bangkok city officials are expected to tear the structure down in coming weeks. 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
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