Cambodia: Government allows human rights abuses to flourish in scam compounds
After 18 months of research, including interviews with survivors and visits to more than 50 scam compounds, a new Amnesty International report details human rights abuses associated with the scam industry.
The research points to government complicity in the abuses, noting that the government is ignoring human rights abuses committed by criminal organizations. Victims in the compounds are subject to abuses including slavery, human trafficking, child labour, and torture on a vast scale across the country.
“Survivors interviewed for the report, ‘I Was Someone Else’s Property,’ believed they were applying for genuine jobs but were instead trafficked to Cambodia, where they were held in prison-like compounds and forced to conduct online scams in a billion-dollar shadow economy defrauding people around the world.”
Full article: Cambodia: Government allows slavery and torture to flourish inside hellish scamming compounds