A Friend’s Journey Attempting Rescue From Alleged Slave Compound

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The plea came as so many others have — a Facebook post to a live-stream address by Prime Minister Hun Sen. “Hello Prime Minister Hun Sen, I am a Chinese. I was tricked into a scam park in Baima City, Kampot Province, forcing me to work in fraud, if I didn’t work they would shock me with an electric baton, hit me with a stick, please help me, I really I don’t want to die, please.”

 

The young man is just one of the latest foreign nationals claiming they’ve been held against their will by employers in Cambodia, forced to work in online scam networks. Though such stories have become all too common in the country, Chen’s case has offered a rare window into how Cambodian law enforcement agencies respond to forced labor reports.

 

VOD reporters followed the case of Chen from his post calling for help to the efforts of a friend of his, a young Chinese man living in Phnom Penh who identified himself as Yuan. The man agreed to speak to VOD using only family names for himself and the detained Chinese national out of safety concerns.

 

 

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