Are Thailand and Myanmar safe?
If you ask a middle-aged man named Xing Weilin, he will definitely shake his head vigorously. After all, on January 5 this year, he had just been able to escape from that demon cave and return to China.
#一个商机 #
In August 2022, Lao Xing, a native of Guizhou, chatted with a neighbor who had never known him on a high-speed train to Kunming on a business trip.
As the owner of a travel company, Lao Xing has his own travel brand, 142 stores, worth tens of millions. The epidemic has had a great impact on his business in the past two years. The two talked about the current situation of the tourism industry, and the other party provided him with an idea, it is better to engage in overseas travel, after all, the epidemic policy will soon be liberalized, and the profit point is considerable.
Lao Xing deeply agreed.
The other party claimed to be Yang Fei, a colleague of Lao Xing, who happened to be doing things in Thailand. The two chatted speculatively. Later, Yang Fei called Lao Xing many times and invited him to Thailand for investigation.
Lao Yuki moved his heart and decided on a ticket and hotel in late September. He planned to stay there for 3 days and revealed his itinerary to Yang Fei.
On September 21, he took off from Hong Kong for Bangkok. As soon as he got off the plane, Yang Fei's phone called, and he enthusiastically told him that everything had been arranged and that he would do his best to be a landlord.
Old Xing was embarrassed, but he felt that it was difficult to shirk, so he returned the hotel he booked and got into the car sent by the other party.
It was a Toyota off-road with local license plates. The driver was a woman, accompanied by two Mandarin-speaking men.
Later, Lao Xing looked back and felt that it might be problematic for him to subjectively mistake them for Chinese, and many Chinese in Myanmar also speak Chinese. But it's not the same thing at all.
Someone handed him a bottle of mineral water, and another smoked. I don't know if it's the effect of water or smoke, Lao Xing sat in the car and fell asleep after a while.
He woke up in a boat next to four dark-skinned locals. The language is not clear, Lao Xing took the translation software to try to communicate, but the other party ignored it. He vaguely felt that something was wrong.
After disembarking, he was taken into a commercial van with two military men wearing green uniforms and striking Burmese flags on their epaulettes. The two drove him to a park in Myawaddy. It was then that Lao Xing realized the seriousness of the problem.
Myawaddy KK Park. He'd seen the reports before and probably knew what this place was.
Myawaddy City is located in the southeast of Myanmar, KK Park, also known as AA Park, is notorious for the crime of human trafficking. In recent years, as the mainland police have gradually intensified their crackdown on cross-border crimes, gambling, telecommunications fraud and other dens have begun to migrate from the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone of Laos and northern Myanmar to the private armed jurisdiction of Myawaddy. As a result, it has become a hub for online drug trafficking.
The park is surrounded by a 4-meter-high fence, barbed wire, and live security patrols. The operation of the company here is completely imitating the military set, with a strict schedule, a clear division of labor, strict management, and almost squeezing people to the limit.
What's more, there is no rule of law at all. Human life is not worth much, and some victims have said that there may be more ghosts in KK Park than people alive in the park.
Old Xing thought to himself, it's over.
Upon arrival, Lao Xing was taken to the boss's office.
The boss, speaking with a northeastern accent, told him bluntly that he had paid 200,000 yuan to buy him in and told him to work hard. His passport and mobile phone were then confiscated.
He was placed in an eight-person movable board room, which was harsh, hot, airtight, like grilled meat. The information I got was that this was a branch with more than 30 low-level employees.
The dormitory mates lived here for as short as 3 years and as long as 9 years. Lao Xing asked them, why didn't they want to escape?
Answer: The security was tight, it was difficult to escape, and if he was caught, the consequences were even worse.
#老板沦为底层员工 #
Lao Xing got 22 work mobile phones and a stack of speech training materials sent to him by the company, asking him to add all kinds of strangers to engage in pig killing plates, and only after completing 1 million achievements can he use his own mobile phones.
The personnel structure here is, from bottom to top, general employee-team leader-supervisor-supervisor. Ordinary employees, victims like Lao Xing, know little about the company's situation, and can only receive information from the team leader and work.
Employees need to apply to their supervisor to make calls, and there will be someone watching them when calling.
There are only 3 toilet visits and smoking opportunities per day, and each time should not exceed 8 minutes. And need to report with the supervisor, fill in the form, the same department can not exceed 2 people at a time to go out.
You can't talk about things that aren't related to work in the office. You can't eat, you can't put anything on your desk that isn't related to work, and you can't put water.
Such discipline is numerous and strict, training and punishment are more than ordinary people can bear, and more than 18 hours of work is commonplace.
At the same time, everyone can freely move around the park for a few hours outside of work. The park has complete facilities for eating, drinking, gambling, and various places, and many people no longer want to escape under this coercion and temptation, but are corrupted.
Lao Xing learned that once an employee bills and wants to take the commission home, he must go through the boss. The problem is that such remittances are immediately monitored by domestic banks and police, and cannot withstand scrutiny. If it is found to be a telecom fraud, the account will be frozen immediately.
If the money cannot be sent, it will expose and confirm the fact that it participates in telecommunications fraud abroad.
Eventually, a significant proportion of people go from victim to criminal. Because it is impossible to go back, the back road in the country has also been cut off, and the original forced and coerced have become willing. At his company, only 20 percent are still being forced, and the remaining 80 percent are willingly obeying the company.
Lao Xing coped with the work perfunctorily, very unwillingly.
A week later, he finally couldn't stand it, broke the jar, and told the supervisor to meet the boss and talk about cooperation. At his insistence, he went to his boss's office again.
Old luck to the point, you paid me to buy it, I can give you more ransom, let my family call you, as long as you let me go.
The owner smoked a cigar and was unmoved.
Lao Xing said again, if you give me my mobile phone, I have my own money and can transfer money to you directly.
The boss sneered when he heard this, opened the safe behind him, and took out Lao Xing's mobile phone. Before he could be happy, he suddenly grabbed a hammer from the coffee table and directly smashed his Apple 13pro, which was worth nearly 10,000 dollars.
The boss scolded angrily, see, either trick two more people to come in and change you, or work honestly, stop having illusions!
Plus 3 stick beatings, and Lao Xing compromised. Start being forced to learn various tricks and methods of online scams.
Simply put, it's a three-step process. The first step is to set up a person. Steal photo information from various platforms and create a fictitious identity for yourself. The key to convincing this character lies in raising numbers, and strengthening the sense of realism through the continuous release of the circle of friends.
Lao Xing needs to hold more than 20 mobile phones at the same time to raise multiple numbers, and build the circle of friends of each number into the so-called "golden, inspirational, positive energy personality".
The second step is to fish everywhere and cultivate feelings with these fooled victims.
The third step is to defraud the other party's funds.
Lao Xing's character is a successful person who opened a mahogany furniture factory in Shenzhen, in his 30s. But after all, when he is middle-aged, he is slow to type and react, plus subjectively he is unwilling to deceive people, and he has no performance at all.
There are also two types of low-level employees:
One is called dog push, which is to open bills normally at normal work;
The other is called piglet, which is disliked because it has not been billed for a long time, and will be constantly sold by the company.
In short, it will not be seen as a person. There is no precedent for letting people out here, and those who escape are either killed or sold to the high seas, and what exactly awaits them, I don't know at all.
During this period, Lao Xing met a 24-year-old young girl, who was a "piglet".
She said she had been sold three or four times and was often beaten because she couldn't do anything. Scarred, penniless, not even the money to buy sanitary napkins. Lao Xing listened pitifully and gave her some money.
When his bank card and mobile phone were confiscated, his cash was not collected.
The girl even considered marrying a security guard to escape more beatings. Lao Xing had mixed tastes in his heart, and although he sympathized with her, he couldn't do anything because he couldn't protect himself. Because there will be an assessment soon, Lao Xing sees that he is about to become a "piglet".
#尝试自救 #
A month later, he risked logging in to his WeChat account with his company mobile phone, contacted his family, and quickly explained his experience. The son called the police in China, but the police's view was not optimistic: "In recent years, there have been almost no successful escapes and rescues from Myawaddy, which is not under the jurisdiction of the Myanmar government and is local military autonomy." ”
The more the family watched the news of Myowaddy, the heavier their hearts became, feeling that he might be less murderous in the future. Lao Xing only had one son after his divorce. What's more, they began to consider how to take away the real estate in his country, hoping to take advantage of the fire and rob it, rather than give it away.
In desperation, Lao Xing could only choose to save himself.
On the first day of early November, he had planned to jump off the wall, but he had a kidney stone attack and was in pain.
At 5 a.m. on November 13, he secretly got up and jumped off a four- or five-meter fence while everyone was resting while the supervision was not strict. There was a sharp pain when his right leg hit the ground, and he knew it was a broken bone. Gritting his teeth and insisting on fleeing near a family, he met a local father and son.
He quickly stuffed the other party with 800 yuan and begged them to take him away. The other party quickly found a change of local clothes, put a helmet on him, and let him get on a motorcycle.
It was a pity that he left the KK park, and before he was happy for long, the local man who took him made a phone call. Halfway through a black car blocked the way, a "policeman" came down and dragged him into the car.
After collecting his remaining cash and $20,000 worth of watches, the car took him around in an attempt to sell him again. Fortunately, the fracture injury + age made him delay the buyer. The black police eventually gave up and handed him over to a group of local troops.
In order to continue to sell him for a good price, the general of the army called a doctor to give him basic treatment. Old Xing's mind turned and he decided to act more exaggerated. Even crawling to the toilet to let others understand that his leg is too badly injured and crippled, so that all buyers will not look at him.
Here, he also met a Chinese translator whose mother was from Fujian and his father from Burmese. He asked the interpreter to tell the general on his behalf, don't sell himself again, he has money, he can redeem himself. However, this translation did not go as he had hoped.
There is not a single good person in this part of Myanmar, there is no humanity. Lao Xing sighed.
So he took advantage of the translator's absence to open the mobile phone translation software and express this meaning to the general.
The general wavered. Because during this time, there were many buyers who came to see him, and the price dropped from 300,000 to 200,000, but none of them were willing to buy him. It's really not a good deal.
The general asked, how much are you going to pay?
Lao Xing asked rhetorically, how much do you plan to sell me?
The general said, 300,000.
Lao Xing said simply, I asked my family to call you 80,000 yuan, my friend has many resources, you help me find a doctor to treat my leg, it is very good to me. I can introduce you to more resources, and we will cooperate for a long time. When I go back and heal my leg, I'll bring friends and cash to do business with you, and if you don't believe me, you can come with me.
The general is still hesitating. 80,000 yuan, equivalent to 24.46 million kyats, he really can't earn so much by selling Lao Xing.
Lao Xing added, if you keep me, you will buy and sell with a hammer, and you may not be able to sell it. Took my money and released me, not only this money, but also more business.
The photo on the left shows a group photo with the general
In this way, the cooperation was reached verbally, and the son called 80,000 yuan according to Lao Xing's request.
On November 27, Lao Xing successfully crossed the river and entered Thailand.
#又入虎穴 #
Thai immigration authorities took him to the hospital at his own expense. Lao Xing did not dare to stay for a long time, afraid that the Internet fraud group in Miaowadi would kidnap him at any time.
On December 16, Lao Xing was transferred to the Thai Immigration Department prison. Unexpectedly, this is another hell.
In a large house, more than 1,000 people from more than a dozen countries are detained. Here, the immigration office earns money by charging fees for these "refugees".
To use a mobile phone, you have to pay money, which is equivalent to 240 yuan per day.
There is a fee to eat.
If you want to live in a room with fewer people and a better environment, you have to pay a monthly rent of 10,000 yuan.
To get a return application form, you have to pay 330 RMB. Later, he was fired to 2400 yuan, and he couldn't even receive it. Because the immigration office is reluctant to let these ATMs go.
During this period, Lao Xing called the embassy several times to register his situation, but still did not respond.
On December 21, worried that his leg, which had been seriously injured and unhealed, would really become crippled if he was not treated, he had no choice but to disclose this series of absurd, terrifying and thrilling encounters in his circle of friends.
9 photos, more than 1,700 words, fully explained their trip to Thailand and Myanmar to their relatives, friends and partners in the circle of friends. He appealed to his relatives and friends in China to call the embassy for help, get a certificate of return, and return to China for treatment as soon as possible.
On January 5, 2023, Lao Xing finally successfully boarded the flight back to China with the help of many parties. After 4 months, it cost 200,000 yuan, the person lost 42 pounds, his legs were folded, but his life was still there.
#中招的不止一个 #
Coincidentally, Zhang Hao, a young man after 95 in Taizhou, Zhejiang, was also rescued from Myanmar on February 2 this year.
As an international student at the University of Liverpool in the UK, he was attracted to Thailand by a cross-border e-commerce company run by a Chinese when he attended a Chinese job fair in Dubai.
He still deliberately paid attention to it, and after several screenings, he carefully considered it. 20,000 yuan monthly salary, Chinese-English translation, work in Bangkok, Thailand. The cautious Zhang was also not spared after landing in Bangkok on June 4 last year. Similar routine, a special person picks up the airport to handle the entry, and passes out as soon as he gets on the car.
I woke up next to thugs with machetes. He was driven from the Thai-Burmese border and crossed the river by boat to Myawaddy. Only then did I know that it was sold for 200,000.
The scam park photographed by Zhang Hao
He also received a Chat Scam Workflow Primer Manual. In his company, in addition to executives, there are three types of positions: customer service, business, and finance. He is a customer service, on WeChat on the grounds of blind date as the reason to add friends, then clarify the wrong mobile phone number, then maintain friends, enhance feelings within 10-15 days, and then start investing in scam guidance. Another standard pig killing plate.
He worked 14 hours a day, monitored the whole process, and even slept with one handcuff to the edge of the bed.
Xiao Zhang tried to find some opportunities by pretending to be crazy and selling, but to no avail.
In January 2023, Xiao Zhang was suspected of having a tendency to escape because he uploaded pictures, and as a result, he was locked up in a small black room. Here he was shocked with electric batons and beaten with iron bars. Tortured for 18 days. With only one meal a day, and security guards guarding 24-hour shifts, there is no chance of suicide.
But according to Xiao Zhang, this is already the most polite greeting. There are also those who are hung up and not allowed to sleep, and those whose fingers are chopped off for resisting.
Xiao Zhang was also filmed when he was abused, and these people sent them to his mother through his mobile phone to extort money. The starting price is 400,000, of course, it is not to release people after handing over, but to give the family a hope to ask for more.
On January 10, Xiao Zhang's mother went to the Huangyan Branch of the Taizhou Public Security Bureau to report to the police after receiving the information. Later, the Taizhou police found Southeast Asian caring team organizations and local Chinese businessmen in Myanmar, and with the assistance of the Myanmar military, the transnational rescue was successful, and Xiao Zhang finally returned home.
In this regard, Xiao Zhang only has a blood and tears lesson to advise everyone: do not go to Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Cambodia border areas alone, let alone believe high-paying job advertisements from Southeast Asia.
#还有人被困妙瓦底 #
At the beginning of March this year, more than 80 workers applied for the Baoding Kekong Electric Company, planning to work as general workers in a fishmeal factory in Thailand. However, after leading everyone to Thailand, Luo Mouli, the head of the company, suddenly handed over the 8-person team to the local counterpart.
When he reached a river, the man asked everyone to get on board. Everyone opened the map and found that it was Myanmar on the other side, and then felt deceived and refused to move forward. Calling Luo Mouli and them, the other party said that the other side of the river is also Thai territory.
Luo Mouli specially ran to the scene to persuade everyone to cross the river to investigate, and said that he could report the safety situation live all the way. Because everyone has already paid 4600 yuan, they are not willing to lose it. Worker Wang Qiang, as the group leader of the group, decided to cross the river with Luo Mouli first. As a result, contact has disappeared in the past.
On the same day, Wang Qiang sent a message saying that he could not walk in the park, and sent it to locate. It is the KK Park in Myawaddy.
Everyone asked Luo Mouli to rescue Wang Qiang, who was detained, but was refused. Mr. Lo said he stayed voluntarily and was now "forced to volunteer."
According to the news sent by Wang Qiang to his co-workers after he disappeared, he said that he ate and drank well, worked easily, just chatted with customers in Europe and the United States, and beckoned them to hurry up and earn money together.
The workers were worried that someone else was using his mobile phone to deceive them. Therefore, Luo Mouli was strongly requested to call Wang Qiang in person to inquire about the situation.
On the phone, Wang Qiang said that he could not leave, and could only stay to earn money.
The workers asked if they wanted to go home, and they could scrape together money to redeem him. but was denied by Wang Qiang.
Wang Qiang said the company spent 200,000 moves (MAI) on him. After coming out of Luo Mouli's hands, he didn't know how many times he had been resold, and he didn't know who to give the ransom.
And Luo Mouli said that he was wronged, saying that he did not receive this money, but was kind enough to recruit people for the Myanmar side and was deceived. If you say it's time to call the police, call the police.
At the same time, he also warned his co-worker Shen that to earn money in the park, he had to find a poorer person. You can't explain too much to other workers, if you don't let you go home, who dares to go again?
That afternoon, Wang Qiang's sister also received a message from her brother, but she was busy on duty and did not see it until the evening. Wang Qiang said that after entering Myanmar, he encountered people with guns along the way, and he could not get out after entering the park, and transferred the remaining 1,800 yuan to her at night before his mobile phone was taken away. Ask her not to tell her mother and children because her high blood pressure is too strong.
My sister repeatedly called WeChat but did not get a response.
Later, he took the initiative to call his sister again, and her sister asked how much money he needed to redeem him.
Wang Qiang did not answer, and after hanging up, he sent a sentence "I don't want to be empty."
As of March 23, Wang Qiang still did not come out.
#黑暗交易 #
We have reason to believe that Wang Qiang may not be the only one still trapped in the Miawady Internet fraud group.
Some people say that Myanmar is a place where the bull demon king has to honestly plow the land, and Sun Wukong has to honestly perform the big circus when he goes.
Of course, it may be biased to simply and crudely mark the whole country in this way, but at least we should keep Mae Sot and Myawaddy firmly in mind and put a big cross in our hearts.
According to Thai statistics, at least 70,000 Chinese are trafficked from Thailand to Myawaddy in Myanmar every year. These traded populations will eventually flow to Myanmar, the Philippines, Western Europe and South America depending on their use. Of course, this is only one side of the story, and the real situation may be more serious than this.
At the same time, Thailand itself needs to be vigilant, after all, the world's largest "organ black market" is in Thailand.
The British Endsley Insurance Company has listed the world's 10 most dangerous countries for travel, and Thailand is the first of them.
Ga's waist is not just a joke, nor is it a joke that appears for no reason.
A person, reduced to livestock in such a place, can even make the most of it. These people in the news are still only squeezed as labor, and when a person's value as a labor force can no longer be highlighted, it is a truly terrifying moment.
From human trafficking to online fraud to organ trafficking, they are just one part of this huge black industry chain. Those who can come back are extremely lucky.
Lao Xing returned, and he showed enough generosity to those who harmed him and those who fell into the well, and he said that he did not blame them, because it was a natural manifestation of human nature.
He said he was not dead and could make a comeback.
But what about the others?
Human life is very heavy, and when in a sound society ruled by law, killing pays for life, fairness and justice, and righteousness.
Human life is very light, and when in a place where power is chaotic and there is no etiquette, life is lost, like a wisp of smoke drifting away with the wind, silently.
Never let a temptation put your life in the balance.