Pom Mahakan Residents Lose Eviction Battle
21 MARCH 2017 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A resident of Pom Mahakan photographs the front of her home, and her fighting cocks, with a smart phone. Like the other residents of the old fort, she is facing eviction by the end of March, 2017. 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
