Slavery, Human Trafficking and Torture in Cambodia Scam Compounds
In this extensive report, Amnesty International documents the alarming human rights crisis existing within the scamming industry in Cambodia since 2022. It has identified at least 53 scamming compounds where human rights abuses have taken place or continue to occur, including human trafficking, torture and other ill-treatment, forced labour, child labour, deprivation of liberty, and slavery.
Amnesty International has also identified a pattern of failed state behavior, which has allowed serious abuses to flourish. The government’s woefully ineffective response and failure to meet its obligations to adequately prevent and investigate the scamming crisis demonstrate its acquiescence and point towards complicity in the human rights abuses taking place.
Full report: Cambodia: ‘I was someone else’s property’: slavery, human trafficking and torture in Cambodia’s scamming compounds