Pom Mahakan Residents Lose Eviction Battle
21 MARCH 2017 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: The tile floor is all that remains of a destroyed home in Pom Mahakan. 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
