Thousands freed from Myanmar scam centers face slow repatriation process
Wednesday, 26 February 2025 WASHINGTON — A sweeping crackdown led by authorities from Thailand, China and Myanmar has dismantled scam centers along the Thai-Myanmar border and freed thousands from nearly 30 countries, but helping them return home remains a big challenge, says the spokesperson for the Karen Border Guard Force, or BGF. Over a week ago, BGF, an ally of Myanmar's military junta, played a key role in evacuating more than 6,000 people from scam centers in Myanmar's Shwe Kokko fraud hub, near the border...
Hundreds of exhausted young men lie in an open-sided detention centre in Myanmar, waiting to be sent back to their home countries via Thailand. They are among some 7,000 people from multiple countries..
Battered and bruised Chinese workers from online scam centres in Myanmar face an anxious wait to return home, as Beijing and Thailand finalise plans for their repatriation.
Scam compounds have..
WASHINGTON — A sweeping crackdown led by authorities from Thailand, China and Myanmar has dismantled scam centers along the Thai-Myanmar border and freed thousands from nearly 30 countries, but helping them return home remains a big challenge, says the spokesperson for the Karen Border Guard Force, or BGF. Over a week ago, BGF, an ally of Myanmar's military junta, played a key role in evacuating more than 6,000 people from scam centers in Myanmar's Shwe Kokko fraud hub, near the border...![Myanmar scam centre workers plead to go home after 'escaping hell' [Video]](https://video.newsserve.net/300/v/20250228/1403782820-Myanmar-scam-centre-workers-plead-to-go-home.jpg)
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