Cambodia: Government allows slavery and torture to flourish inside hellish scamming compounds

c/world · u/Pro@reddthat.com · 100 points

- Amnesty visits more than 50 scamming compounds in 18-month long research

- Testimony from survivors details human trafficking, slavery and forced labour affecting thousands

- Findings point towards state complicity in abuses carried out by Chinese criminal gangs

The Cambodian government is deliberately ignoring a litany of human rights abuses including slavery, human trafficking, child labour and torture being carried out by criminal gangs on a vast scale in more than 50 scamming compounds located across the country, Amnesty International said in a new report published today.

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.

Comments

u/Danquebec@sh.itjust.works · 5 points

Thanks! That's really nice of you.

u/Tower@lemmy.zip · 5 points

Yeah, it was a joke. But you responding in such an earnest way proves that you really *are* an awesome person.

u/slackassassin@sh.itjust.works · 4 points

Wholesome AF right here.

u/Danquebec@sh.itjust.works · 4 points

Not a dumb question and welcome to Lemmy! Not sure if this is a joke or not considering what we were just discussing just now but I'll send you a PM in case you mean it.

u/Tower@lemmy.zip · 5 points

Oh. Sorry for the dumb question. I'm new to this whole Lemmy thing. I'm trying to make friends and you seem chill. What do you like to do for fun when no one's around?

u/Danquebec@sh.itjust.works · 3 points

I've received a few texts in the past, or messages in WhatsApp, that start by a message apparently sent to the wrong person. Sometimes they had the photo of an a young attractive lady. When you reply, they continue conversing anyway, as if they were bored. By after a while, it gets pretty clear it's fake. I had one go from broken English short messages to elaborate ChatGPT messages to feign interest in fringe interests I expressed having.

u/Tower@lemmy.zip · 3 points

What do you mean?

u/Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee · 5 points

It's those texts that try to engage you in conversation.

u/A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 20 points

"Scamming compound" is not a word I wanted to add to my dictionary. Look at this shit:

!Compound Cambodia

That's methodical, structured, newly built, and completely fenced in. It couldn't have happened without the government _at least_ looking the other way.

u/jaybone@lemmy.zip · 6 points

This vaguely mentions “online scams”. Wonder what type of scams they are talking about.