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27 MARCH 2017 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A boy at the gate of Pom Mahakan takes shelter under an umbrella during a rain shower in Bangkok. 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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27 MARCH 2017 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A boy at the gate of Pom Mahakan takes shelter under an umbrella during a rain shower in Bangkok. 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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