CAMBODIA’S exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy said in a Facebook post today (July 11) that over 120,000 people have been locked up in various buildings across his country and forced to work like slaves for the Chinese Mafia, Naewna newspaper said.
He claimed that Amnesty International’s over 250-page report based on 18 months of investigation with 58 survivors, including nine children, questioned said that the victims from across the world were trafficked, tortured including electric shocks and beatings, as well as threatened in being forced to work for these Chinese criminals.
They were held in at least 53 prison-like buildings across Cambodia.
In addition to Cambodians, these victims are from Thailand, Vietnam, India, the Philippines, and many other countries who were trafficked and detained in Cambodia which is why Thai and Vietnamese authorities recently moved to liberate them.
The Chinese Mafia have opened casinos as well as real estate and other sham companies all over Cambodia, especially along the border with Thailand and Vietnam.
They carry out their criminal activities in Cambodia without any problem because they have the Hun political family behind them, Sam Rainsy, who is exiled in France, said.
He also mentioned that many Chinese scammers holding Cambodian passport have been arrested in Singapore and Thailand.
These international crime syndicates operating near the Thai-Cambodian border rake in billions of dollars each year and this is why Thai authorities moved to dislodge them which provoked a strong backlash from Hun Sen and escalated tensions along the border.
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Top, below and Front Page: Images of buildings in Cambodia where trafficked victims are forced to work like slaves for Chinese Mafia gangs. Photos shared by Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Facebook
Insert: Sam Rainsy is now exiled in France. File photo: Reuters/Romeo Ranoco and published by Yahoo!News
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