Myanmar militia ready to deport 10,000 cyber scam workers
The Karen Border Guard Force are preparing to hand over daily ‘about 500 people including many different nationalities’
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 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 said on Saturday.
“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.
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, 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 Saturday.