Citizens of numerous countries at military camp in Tak awaiting help from embassies
PUBLISHED : 19 Feb 2025 at 21: 37
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A Pakistani citizen who was trafficked into working at a scam centre in Myanmar watches a video of torture that was recorded inside a scam centre, at a shelter inside the 310th Military District (Fort Wachiraprakan) in Tak province of Thailand on Feb 19. (Photo: Reuters)
FORT WACHIRAPRAKAN, Thailand – Inside a Thai military camp, four Ethiopian men on Wednesday showed the bruises and scars on their bodies they said were sustained during their time in one of Myanmar’s most notorious scam compounds.
“I got a lot of punishments,” said 19-year-old Yotor, who gave only one name and had cuts along his leg. “I received electric shocks every day.”
Yotor and his countrymen are among 260 people, most of them human-trafficking victims, who were sent from Myanm
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