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Myanmar militia says ready to deport 10,000 cyber scam workers

February 16, 2025
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YANGON – A Myanmar ethnic militia said on Feb 15 it was preparing to deport 10,000 people linked to cyber scams in the area it controls to Thailand as part of a crackdown on the illicit compounds.

Scam compounds have mushroomed in Myanmar’s borderlands and are staffed by foreigners who are often trafficked and forced to work, swindling people around the world in an industry analysts say is worth billions of dollars.

“We have announced to get rid of all scams from our soil. We are now implementing it,” Karen Border Guard Force (BGF) spokesman Major Naing Maung Zaw told AFP on Feb 15.

“We have made a list and are prepared to transfer about 10,000 people (to Thailand),” he said.

The deportations would be carried out in groups of 500 per day.

AFP has contacted Thai authorities for comment.

The BGF has already sent 61 people across a border bridge to Thailand and are preparing to hand over “about 500 people including many different nationalities” daily, Mr Naing Maung Zaw said.

The military task force responsible for border security in Thailand’s Tak province has coordinated with BGF leaders to receive 7,000 workers from scam compounds, Thai media reported on Feb 15.

Combating cyber scams

BGF soldiers patrolled workplaces at Shwe Kokko in Myanmar’s eastern Myawaddy township on Feb 14 as part of a crackdown on alleged human trafficking, an AFP stringer saw.

Shwe Kokko, a scam compound located in an area under BGF control in Karen state, is a built-up city that stands out among the surrounding agricultural fields.

Cyber scam compounds often lure people from around the globe with promises of high-paying jobs but then effectively hold them hostage and force them to commit online fraud or face severe punishment.

Authorities and militia groups in Myanmar and Thailand have made a show of raiding the centres, which have also been linked to drug smuggling and gambling, before releasing and repatriating the foreigners inside.

Thailand deported 10 Chinese nationals linked to the high-profile alleged kidnapping of an actor who was rescued from a cyber fraud centre in Myanmar, Thai police told AFP on Feb 15.

The suspects were part of a gang operating in Myawaddy, south of Shwe Kokko, and were allegedly involved in defrauding Chinese citizens, according to a police statement.

More than 250 foreign nationals from over a dozen countries were also rescued from an online scam centre in Kyauk Khet, 50km south of Shwe Kokko, and were handed over to Thailand on Feb 12.

BGF Major General Saw Chit Thu released a statement on Feb 13 saying the militia were “identifying, arresting, and suppressing human traffickers and fraudsters who are illegally operating within investment projects in our region”. AFP

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