PUBLISHED: 3 Mar 2025 at 15: 00
Thailand will examine the feasibility of constructing a wall along its border with Cambodia on Monday, according to state official Jirayu Houngsub.
The wall would be a part of a worldwide campaign to eradicate Thailand’s sprawling network of call-scam centers, which have a large number of foreign nationals as victims worldwide.  ,
The assault on these legal organizations, which are primarily run by Chinese gangs with bases in Cambodia and Myanmar, is growing.
According to the United Nations, hundreds of thousands of people who thought they were going to reasonable jobs have recently been trafficked by these criminal gangs and held in electronic slavery.
After a raid in the Cambodian border city of Poipet, Thai police rescued at least 215 people who were being held in a scammer’s substance, Thai authorities received 119 Thai citizens from Thai authorities over the weekend.
At the government meeting on Monday, Mr. Jirayu said the possibility of building a wall was one of the topics discussed. He claimed and added that the Foreign and Defence ministers were given the task of holding discussions with Thai authorities.
” If it is done, how would it be done?” What outcomes were possible, and would problems be resolved? All of this needs to be studied, according to Mr. Jirayu. He did not specify how much a wall may be.
The cabinet meeting took place on Friday following the prime minister’s explore to the Khlong Luek station in Aranyaprathet city of Sa Kaeo state.
A request for comment on the walls plan was not immediately addressed by the Thai state.
Cambodia and Thailand have a boundary that spans 817 kilometers. A 55-kilometer stretch of the boundary with numerous biological crossings in the Sa Kaeo-Poipet region has recently been proposed by the Thai Defense Ministry. It is now protected by knife cable.
Mobile fraud centers have been operating out of Southeast Asia for centuries, capturing victims in nations as far ahead as West Africa. After the rescue in January of Chinese professional Wang Xing, who was lured to Thailand with the promise of a career and finally whisked over the border to a scam center in Myanmar, they are facing heightened attention.
More than 7, 000 foreigners from s closure fraud centers, the preponderance from China but also from Africa and other nations, are awaiting entry into Mae Sot region in Thailand’s Tak territory in Myanmar’s Myawaddy. Thailand is collaborating with foreign diplomats to make it easier for repatriates to their home countries.
According to reports quoting another freed workers, hundreds of people are still limbo in filthy conditions in a military camp and are still trying to find a way house.
Rangsiman Rome, the deputy leader of the People’s Party, stated last week that the crackdown also needed to go on. He estimated that 300, 000 people had participated in scam-gang activities based solely in Myawaddy, with many others operating in different cities.  ,