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Crime compounds in Myanmar

USA government human rights investigators and human trafficking victims in Myanmar say that a lawless town on the border with Thailand has become a forced labour hub, where kidnap victims must take part in phone or cyber scams, or face violence, torture, even death. Poppy James, reports from Shwe Kokko, Myanmar.

USA government human rights investigators and human trafficking victims in Myanmar say that a lawless town on the border with Thailand has become a forced labour hub, where kidnap victims must take part in phone or cyber scams, or face violence, torture, even death. Poppy James, reports from Shwe Kokko, Myanmar.

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