'Piglets' from Taiwan shares horrible experience in Myawaddy, revealing crimes of phone scam terrorist organizations
The phone scam terrorist organization in Myanmar has been harming people from various places for many years, becoming a global hazard. Following the Wang Xing incident, yesterday (Jan. 14), a man from Taiwan was rescued and revealed that he was lured to Mae Sot in Thailand, then transported by boat to the phone fraud camp in Myawaddy, Myanmar, where he was imprisoned along with two people from Hong Kong, following a similar route as reported in the investigation by the Ta Kung Pao.
Abused for several days, subjected to beatings by soldiers
The rescued "piglet" is surnamed Hsieh (27 years old), a fire dancer from Taiwan. Earlier, he saw a job invitation on Facebook, and the fees he quoted were accepted by the other party. Therefore, on Dec. 25, he flew to Bangkok, Thailand, where a car was sent to pick him up. After seven to eight hours, he arrived at the Thai-Myanmar border in Mae Sot, where another car was sent to take him to a remote riverside location. There, someone with a gun threatened him to hand over his phone and then made him board a boat to the other side, where he was then taken to the electric fraud camp in Myawaddy.
Taiwanese fire dancer Hsieh accepted a job invitation and flew to Bangkok, only to be kidnapped to the Myawaddy electric fraud camp in Myanmar.
He was locked in a small room and handcuffed by the perpetrators. Seven to eight soldiers beat him, warning him to perform the scam work well and not to attempt to escape because there were many landmines buried near the camp. Hsieh was detained for five days, during which he could only rest and sleep by leaning on the railing. When he was released after five days, he saw two more Hong Kong individuals and one Malaysian. About 90% of the "piglets" in the camp speak Chinese, including those from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Malaysia, with the youngest being only 19 years old.
He tried to send a distress signal using a computer, but the supervisor discovered it and punished him by making him take off his shirt every morning and stand handcuffed on the parallel bars under the sun for three hours. In the afternoon, he was forced to stand still or carry bricks, enduring continuous abuse for nine days.
After Tsieh went missing, his family found his phone's location in Myawaddy and received a message demanding a ransom of tens of thousands of dollars. They reported this to the Taiwanese authorities, and with the help of Thai and Taiwanese authorities, he was safely returned to Thailand. He arrived in Bangkok in the early hours of yesterday and took a morning flight back to Taiwan.
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