The human rights organization Amnesty International accuses the Cambodian government of deliberately ignoring the deportation and slavery of people by cyber crime gangs.
The organization in London stated in a new report to have discovered 53 prison -like settlements and dozens of other suspicious locations throughout the country, also in the capital Phnom Penh.
Those who were affected would describe themselves as trapped in a nightmare, said Agnes Callamard, secretary -general of the amnesty. “They are forced in criminal organizations that apparently act with the permission of the Cambodian government.”
Amnesty said that her results had revealed a “state pattern of state failure” so that the billions of industry made it possible to thrive. This included failure to investigate human rights violations or to identify and support victims.
The government rejects accusations
The spokesperson for the Cambodian government Pen Bona denied that the government was over and referred to a Task Force formed by Prime Minister their Manet in January. The Amnesty report is exaggerated. Cambodia is a victim of the fraud industry and wishes cooperation instead of guilt.
Amnesty explained that security forces had released some victims in raids. But it turned out that more than two -thirds of the suspected institutions were not searched by the police or continued to operate for police operations. According to the organization, only two facilities were closed.
Even children are forced to fraud
According to Amnesty International, people, including children, are trapped in prison -like systems surrounded by high fences with barbed wire and are guarded by armed men. They would be forced to cheat people online worldwide. Among other things, they misled loving relationships in which they build trust in the victims before they ask them for money, says Amnesty. The passengers would be punished, among other things, with electric shocks, strokes or locks in dark rooms.
Amnesty said he asked 58 victims. Nine of them were children, including a 16-year-old boy from China. A Chinese child died in one of the camps. An 18-year-old Thai affected person told Reuters that he was kidnapped to a camp in Phnom Penh in 2023. When he tried to leave the camp, he was caught and sold at another camp near the Vietnamese border.
Detached served as love winds
The man, who did not want to be called, said he was forced to use a deep fake video software as an older, attractive man and Thai women to give him their money. After almost a year he managed to escape.
Cambodia developed into a center of the global fraud industry during the pandemic, because criminal groups mainly convert unused casinos and hotels into fraud centers, in which according to the United Nations up to 100,000 people were housed. Similar enclaves bloom in Myanmar and Laos.
Source: Krone
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