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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Rebecca Root

Destitute survivors of south-east Asia’s cyberscam farms an ‘international crisis’

People sit on the ground with suitcases watched over by an armed guard.
A Thai soldier stands guard over people who escaped to Thailand from the KK Park compound in Myanmar. Cambodia and Myanmar have seen growing numbers of homeless scam centre victims. Photograph: Sarot Meksophawannakul/Thai News Pix/AFP/Getty Images

Charities and aid workers have called for urgent international government support for victims of south-east Asia’s deadly scam compounds, following a damning report by Amnesty International.

The numbers of survivors of cyberscam “farms” left destitute and abandoned on the city streets of Cambodia and Myanmar is an “international crisis”, according to the research published in January.

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