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A Chinese actor was enslaved in a compound running online scams (archive.is)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The United Nations estimated in a report last August that more than 200,000 people are being forced to work as scammers in Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos.

Paywalled source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/07/22/myanmar-cyberscams-china-trafficking/

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit what a scary and sad story. I thought it was going to end with a police raid or something, but his mom just paid the random by selling their house 😭 Of course the police suck in every country, too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Of course the police suck in every country, too.

Yep. But in some nations we know they would respond to mass slavery in their jurisdiction.

By raiding and mowing down all in the building with machine guns?