No place like home for Kg Sungai Baru residents anymore

Officers from the Dang Wangi police station close every road leading to Kampung Sungai Baru ahead of the scheduled eviction of its residents on Sept 11, 2025.

A motorcyclist brakes at a line of the anti-riot FRU personnel who are guarding the entrance to the Malay enclave.

The court bailiff, escorted by a group of police, checks each home that is still occupied, ordering households to vacate the premises immediately.

Officers arrive outside a house to order inhabitants to leave, ahead of demolition works.

Surrounded by his police escort, he moves from house to house, checking each home against his list.

A resident pleads to let them stay pending residents' appeal in court.

A stand-off takes place at the entrance to Kampung Sungai Baru as supporters show solidarity with residents who have long been fighting eviction from authorities to make way for a a commercial project.

Kuala Lumpur police chief Fadil Marsus warns supporters against causing provocations.

Workers from Tenaga Nasional Bhd cut the supply of electricity to a section of terrace houses in the area.

Contract workers appointed by the developer carry out the belongings of residents, forcing them to vacate their homes.

A lorry waits to carry their belongings away from their homes.

A woman walks past a row of terrace houses in the process of being torn down, the rubble in stark contrast with the gleaming skyscrapers behind.

Effendy Ahmat Main stoops to pick up something that was dropped by the workers on their way out of his house.

Another resident surveys what is left of his family home which is now devoid of furniture and belongings, its windows smashed and hanging from the frames in shards.

Resident Syukri Kartho stands in front of the rubble and debris that used to be his home, in the once happy village of Kampung Sungai Baru.