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16 MAY 2017 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A woman and her grandson sit in what used to be a home and is now an empty lot in Pom Mahakan. The city evicted the family living in the home and tore it down. 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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Life Behind the Walls in Pom Mahakan
16 MAY 2017 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A woman and her grandson sit in what used to be a home and is now an empty lot in Pom Mahakan. The city evicted the family living in the home and tore it down. 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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