Nearly 10,000 survivors of “cyberesclavagism” centers in Southeast Asia should soon be repatriated to their countries of origin, according to a Burmese militia close to power. The first planes left Thursday, February 20, to China. Last week, already, a rebellious Burmese group gave more than 250 victims to Thailand. Like in huge telecommunications centers, they were forced to conduct scams on Chinese and Western networks, for a business that would bring about 43 billion dollars per year (41 billion euros) according to the United States Institute for Peace, or more than 40 % Combined GDPs from Laos, Cambodia and Burma. In the Golden Triangle, the scam swallows the UN to call “one of the largest coordinated trafficking operations of people in history”, A emerged when the immense casinos found themselves emptied of their tourists, during the pandemic of Covid-19. Since then, the scam centers have been flourishing in the golden triangle, at the crossroads of Burma, Thailand, Laos and China. The coup d’etat in Burma has made it a privileged playground for the Chinese mafia. The majority of workers are enlisted there, bait by the prospect of a job. The most famous of the victims, the Chinese actor Wang Xing, thought of spending a casting for a Thai film, before disappearing from the radars. The one estimates that these centers would bring together at least 120,000 people in Burma and 100,000 in Cambodia, everything stressing that Laos, the Philippines and Thailand are still trafficking fields. Like Wang Xing, the victims are mainly from Southeast Asia, but also of sub-Saharan Africa. Interpol has collected testimonies of torture, sexual violence “and even alleged organ trafficking”. The retaliation of the authorities and the juntes of the media coverage of the multiple kidnappings in Thailand, the country has lost nearly 10 % of its tourists. The story of actor Wang Xing has marked part of the Chinese visitors, who avoid Thailand and are worried about the fate of their compatriots. , according to the authorities, he was shot in the head after being arrested. At the end of January, they also intercepted Yan Wenlei, “recruitment” agent. Between October 2023 and January 2025, the Burmese junta would have, according to the State Journal, released nearly 55,000 people, including 53,000 Chinese. According to the Thai Embassy in the United States, China and Thailand have still arrested, At the beginning of February, 12 traffickers, which would have participated in the removal of 6,000 people. The two countries are preparing to set up a coordination center for the fight against these networks.
Author : News7
Publish date : 2025-02-25 08:25:12
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