Recently, in Samut Prakanpo province in central Thailand, when the police were investigating drunk driving, they found 14 foreigners who could not speak Thai sitting on three off-road vehicles with Bangkok license plates. Upon inspection, it was found that they were all Chinese, and none of them had documents on them.
The Chinese, who did not have passports, explained that they traveled by train from China and somehow arrived in Thailand. The Thai driver of the three cars also said that he had received money from the Thai boss and was ready to send these "Chinese tourists" from Bangkok to Chiang Mai for tourism. And the place of Samut Prakanpo, further west is Lai Hung Province, and a little further past Lai Hung Province is the famous Myanmar Myawaddy.
From 2022 to the beginning of 2023, this type of news is often seen in Thailand. are undocumented Chinese, smuggled over the mountains in groups, sometimes from all over Thailand, to the borders of Thailand's neighboring countries; In some cases, it is smuggled from neighbouring countries into Thailand.
Sometimes, people who ask for help say that they have been arrested in Thailand and are waiting to be deported in the immigration bureau, but they are afraid that they will be "sold back to the Myanmar campus" by the Thai police, so they turn to the media so that they can be "safely repatriated" as soon as possible.
There are also some whistleblowers, directly in the "park" in Myanmar, through Chinese relatives to send out a call for help to Thailand, want to find a powerful rescuer in Thailand, directly to the park in Myanmar to rescue people.
Whenever I communicate with my friends and see such "help" and "breaking news", my heart feels mixed. It is understood that in the end, some have been satisfactorily resolved, and some have not been followed up.
Initially, a large number of criminals from China came to Cambodia, the Philippines, Myanmar and Laos to open casinos to lure Chinese to gamble cross-border or online.
After the outbreak of the epidemic, due to the severance of personnel exchanges, casinos transformed into telecom fraud, and lured domestic personnel to illegally cross borders through deception and coercion to enter telecom crime parks to become fraud accomplices.
After the end of the epidemic, cross-border personnel exchanges have become more convenient, online gambling and fraud parks have begun to return, and the recruitment of personnel has become more "international", and some wire fraud gangs have begun to recruit Chinese and Indians from Southeast Asian countries, turning their targets to Europe and the United States.
The recruitment process is no longer so dependent on violent persecution, and the recruited personnel will be arranged to work in Singapore and Dubai, and after a period of time, they will be stationed in Thailand on the grounds of business needs, and wait for the opportunity to cross the border from Laixing and Chiang Rai into various "parks" in neighboring countries to extract the last value.
After entering the various "special zones" and "parks", we are familiar with the hell pattern: high-intensity work, demanding performance indicators, harsh militarized management, mental brainwashing and physical abuse.
Some unbearable employees make relatives and friends in China pay ransom, or directly risk escaping the magic cave and smuggling across the border back to Thailand. Surrender to local authorities in Thailand, awaiting repatriation, or attempting to illegally re-smuggle back to China.
If it succeeds, it is a desperate situation; If it fails, it will only become a footnote in the news.
In the process of seeking help, and after being repatriated, in order to increase the chance of success, and to avoid being prosecuted by the law after returning to China, the "piglets" who escaped often tried their best to avoid their responsibilities, infinitely exaggerated the horror of the electric fraud park, describing themselves as innocent people who were "fooled for a while" or "forced to cross the border by holding guns all the way", beating, sexual assault, killing, drawing blood, and waist - it has also become the unified language and universal story template of every piglet who "survives the disaster".
But are they really as innocent as they portray?
Would anyone really be eating hot pot and singing songs in Chiang Mai, happily touring the scenery, and suddenly kidnapped into a telefraud park on the other side of the border?
Will anyone really be able to cross the border between China, Laos and Thailand and trek to Myanmar with guns pointed to their heads all the way?
Isn't it that such a description is impossible (after all, no border is completely impenetrable), but the point is that the criminal group needs to use such a way, at such a risk, and use this level of force just to catch an untrained operator for its pig killing plate?
Since he has this force and courage to dare to carry out kidnapping in China, then why should he do this, isn't it better to rob it directly?
Some of the hellish descriptions of the park about the fear of being "in a desperate situation" are true, and some are not. The "Xigang Blood Slave" that shocked China turned out to be nothing, but it was just a lie fabricated by the participants in the wire fraud who were rescued back to China in order to avoid being held accountable. The so-called "blood drained all over the body" is just a serious liver disease.
Some of the helpers have fled to Thailand and have even turned themselves in to the Thai police, still fearfully claiming that they will be "sold back to Myanmar." In fact, it was successfully handed over and repatriated within a few days.
Those rumors of "killing people to take kidneys" and the description of "stump of the river" are half-true observations, and there is no lack of fiction that wins sympathy, self-clearance rendering.
Even if those bloody self-statements are true, why did you know that there are tigers in the mountains and prefer Tiger Mountain?
Until now, don't you know what kind of high-paying jobs in the Myanmar park are?
In the era when every tourist leaving Southeast Asia will be repeatedly screened by Chinese customs like a thief, in this era when "northern Myanmar cutting the waist" and "Xigang pig killing plate" have become known to almost become an Internet joke, why would anyone take the initiative to step into such a fire pit?
Do they really not know that what awaits them is high-intensity work, strict "business" indicators, the threat of corporal punishment for not billing for a week, and the exploitation of sweat and blood with only 8 minutes of smoking time in 12 hours?
Don't you have points in mind for these?
Some people will ask: Old man, aren't you not the "victim guilt theory"? How pitiful people are, they are beaten into inhuman shapes, and maybe they will end up with their waist, is it not worthy of sympathy and salvation?
Of course, they deserve to be saved. Because for whatever reason, those who have been subjected to inhumane abuse deserve to be rescued.
Are they victims? Yes.
But are they perpetrators? I'm afraid the answer is yes.
The most critical characteristic of the "piglet problem" is that it is not a simple "victim" problem, but has both the dual attributes of victim and perpetrator.
Today, when the routine of Southeast Asian parks is widely known, many so-called "tricked into entering the park" actually know the nature of the work they will be doing. While becoming a tool of the fraud syndicate, they are also to some extent complicit in the crime of fraud, and they also bear part of the responsibility for the truly innocent victims - the victims of the fraud.
The problem is that almost no piglet in the scam park will face this annoying truth sincerely, they completely avoid their "perpetrator" side, try to present their own tragedy, and try to use an increasingly procedural set of words to portray themselves as pure and flawless "perfect victims".
At first, this may work.
But over time, as popular empathy depletes and positions shift, this "perfect victim" shaping becomes increasingly ineffective. The more the "piglets" cry out about their misery, the more it will inspire a public backlash against the "victim's guilt".
Only by honestly facing their responsibilities and facing the real motives behind the "piglets" falling into the abyss can we fundamentally prevent more piglets from falling into the abyss.
If you always believe that you are just a victim, a puppet who can't help yourself, and even use the words "where is the wolf warrior" to curse the country's lack of rescue, such a "victim" will only make yourself more and more unworthy of saving in the hearts of the people.
Forget it, or say something realistic.
Whether or not you believe the descriptions of those "helpers", the most responsible people are, after all, those who are the criminal groups.
I advise all compatriots, who have not yet jumped into the fire pit, do not jump. The second half of the "high-paying position on the Thai-Myanmar border" is "in prison and at the mercy of others", don't pretend not to know, it is useless to pretend.
Those who have jumped in, the only way to save themselves, those who can escape, flee the park and return to Thailand, surrender to the Thai police, and wait to be returned to China.
If they cannot escape, let their relatives report the case to the Chinese police or the embassy in Thailand, and the Chinese official will cooperate with the Thai and Myanmar officials to carry out the rescue. The Thai government no longer accepts rescue requests from personal channels, and there is only a glimmer of life to the police. Do not believe in the rescue of the so-called relationship channel, let alone try to return to China by smuggling in order to avoid accountability after returning to China.
There may be people with great powers, but no one knows where they are.
At this moment, I don't know how many people are coming from their hometowns and running to their cages; Or flee Myanmar and try to escape the shackles they have chosen for themselves.
And in the torment day after day, weaving moving stories for the escape of little hope.
The story is gradually no longer believed.
The most effective way to escape the fire pit is not to step into it in the first place.