After Thailand shut down power and online, the government is getting ready for an influx of foreign victims who have been freed from the claws of call-scam gangs in Myanmar, according to Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai on Wednesday.
The Democratic Karen Buddhist Army ( DKBA ) sent 261 victims of call-centre gangs to Thailand for repatriation. The victims, who were saved from the border towns of KK Park and Shwe Kokko, does face international cooperation and been investigated and brought back to their home countries. At 4.30 am, they arrived in Tak’s Phop Phra area.
Mr. Phumtham claimed previously on Wednesday that he was informed on Tuesday that the Myanmar government was going to give 53 foreigners who had been abused by scams to Phop Phra region in Tak province on Wednesday because the Myanmar government could never afford to take care of them.
However, the Defense Ministry after clarified that there were more than 261 patients who had been saved from the border towns of KK Park and Shwe Kokko. They were transferred to Thailand via the Tak Phop Phra borders convoy.
Mr Phumtham said the 53 immigrants included Bangladeshis, Ethiopians, Kenyans and Filipinos. Thai authorities had test their background profiles and interview them about their past experiences or potential involvement in smuggling. It may take three months to a quarter to arrange for them to be sent back to their home countries if they weren’t scammers.
Mr. Phumtham claimed that Thailand had reports of criminals releasing trapped staff and sending them to Thailand, but that the country may not take them all. ” If their native countries will not accept them, we will not receive them]from Myanmar ]”, Mr Phumtham said. Thailand did not establish a migrant camp for people who come from swindling camps.
Mr. Phumtham noted that some nations have contacted Thailand via their offices to offer assistance to its citizens who have fallen for scams. The offices will be informed when those victims are transported to Thailand so they can begin repatriating their citizens, according to Mr. Phumtham.
The deputy prime minister, who is also the minister of defense, claimed the authorities had previously deployed security forces along the boundary to deal with any potential influx of foreigners leaving call centers.
He claimed that the government had informed Myanmar that Thailand would ease restrictions on access to internet services, energy, and power if it was proven free of scams. ” We are on the right path. We are not concerned about the obstacles to preventing exports from us,” said Mr. Phumtham.
He made reference to recent protests by Myanmar residents calling for the country’s five border regions, where these legal sites are based, to be barred from purchasing Thai items.
Col Natthakorn Rueantip, captain of the Ratchamanoo special task force based in Tak’s Mae Sot area, led a system of 100 men, along with more than 10 trucks, to hold the 261 foreigners again to Thailand. They were delivered to the District Office for Prop Phra. According to sources at the frontier, more than 17, 000 call-scam patients remain in Myanmar. Of them, about 10, 000 are Taiwanese people and the rest are various international citizens, the sources said.