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Keeping lives on track

Phob Raksitanont and Chao Kerdaree, residents of Bun Romsai, a community located next to a railway in Bangkok’s Phaya Thai district. Apichart Jinakul

Chao Kerdaree sits on a bench between two rail tracks, facing a row of shanty houses. Soon his family and another 100 more will be forcibly evicted from their Bun Romsai community built along a one-kilometre rail track in Phaya Thai district.

“I’ve lived here for more than 20 years. Our community was established more than five decades ago but when we are told to leave by the landowner (the State Railway of Thailand), we have to go. We don’t have other options,” said…

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