The Historian · Chai · Bangkok
Pom Mahakan Fort
I attended the final protests before this community was removed. The fort is now beautifully maintained. The people who kept it alive for a century are gone. Both things are true.
One of two surviving fort towers from Rattanakosin's original 1783 ring of fourteen forts. The community that lived inside the walls was forcibly evicted in 2017. That story is the current layer.
— Chai, The Historian
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