Joseph Lim Apr 28
#US launches sweeping crackdown on SE Asia #cyberscams & #sanctions Cambodian senator
"crackdown led by US government #Scam Center Strike Force, incls Treasury Dept's sanction'g of a prominent lawmaker & 28 other people & cos accused of operat'g fr #SCambodia. #Criminal charges also were filed against 2 #Chinese nationals involved in similar op'n in #Myanmar.. #KokAn is at least te 2nd Cambodian senator to be sanctioned by US. In 2024 US acted against tycoon Ly Yong Phat"
https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/74948
US launches sweeping crackdown on Southeast Asia cyberscams and sanctions Cambodian senator

BANGKOK — U.S. officials have announced a sweeping crackdown on Southeast Asian cyberscam operations as part of what U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro characterized as a “new theater of war” launched by the Trump administration against Chinese transnational organized crime.

Japan Wire by Kyodo News
@[email protected] has movedApr 24
#scambodia #cambodia #hunsen #hunmanet #dictatorship #murder #torture #assault #abduction #robbery #fraud #scam #authoritarianism #humanrights #humanrightsabuse #humanrightsabuses #contempt #wsj #wallstreetjournal #dishonesty #corruption #censorship #denial #seasia #southeastasia #nickname #criticism #exposed #exposure #streissandeffect
Joseph Lim Apr 9
#SCambodia has a new law targeting scams, but is it just another ‘paper reform’?
"key gap in te #law was lack of explicit provisions on #corruption to address te role traditionally played by wide range of #officials & powerful members of #senate 🤦‍♂️.. had enabled & orgn'd #scam ops.. failed to detail cond'ns for court seizure of assets belonging to those convicted of perpetrating #cyberscams, or how those assets might be used, for eg, to provide restitution to scam victims"
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3349298/cambodia-has-new-law-targeting-scams-it-just-another-paper-reform
Why Cambodia’s new law may do little to combat its scam centres

Analysts warn the lack of provisions addressing the role officials and networks play in enabling scams may limit the law’s effectiveness.

South China Morning Post
Show thread@[email protected] has movedJan 29

@cxiao Similar topic going on in Cambodia: "witnessed the murder of a man who had his throat cut by a compound manager after he was caught trying to escape" -- "police visited their compounds regularly, including to remove dead bodies, but without taking any action against the managers" -- "Many people died" -- "murder, rape and torture" -- "evidence pointing towards state complicity or deliberate inaction" -- "Cambodian authorities appear to be doing nothing to help"

That's what Amnesty International is writing:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/01/cambodia-growing-humanitarian-crisis-as-escaped-scamming-compound-survivors-tell-of-murder-rape-and-torture/

I feel

e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t

towards the Cambodian Hun Sen/Hun Manet regime when I am seeing this.

#cambodia #scambodia #hunsen #contempt #hunmanet #murder #abduction #complicity #corruption #khmer #dictatorship #police #killing #crisis #humanitariancrisis #amnesty #amnestyinternational #scamcompound #concentrationcamp #deathcamp #slavery

Cambodia: Growing humanitarian crisis as escaped scamming compound survivors tell of murder, rape and torture

Thousands of people who recently escaped or were released from scamming compounds in Cambodia where they were subjected to grave abuses including rape and torture are now stranded and in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, Amnesty International said after gathering harrowing testimony from survivors. Interviews with recently enslaved people – almost all foreign nationals – […]

Amnesty International
Show thread@[email protected] has movedJan 29

@AssociatedPress @asia-AssociatedPress Similar topic in Cambodia: " witnessed the murder of a man who had his throat cut by a compound manager after he was caught trying to escape" -- "police visited their compounds regularly, including to remove dead bodies, but without taking any action against the managers" -- "Many people died" -- "murder, rape and torture" -- "evidence pointing towards state complicity or deliberate inaction" -- "Cambodian authorities appear to be doing nothing to help"

That's what Amnesty International is writing:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/01/cambodia-growing-humanitarian-crisis-as-escaped-scamming-compound-survivors-tell-of-murder-rape-and-torture/

I feel

e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t

towards the Cambodian Hun Sen/Hun Manet regime when I am seeing this.

#cambodia #scambodia #hunsen #contempt #hunmanet #murder #abduction #complicity #corruption #khmer #dictatorship #police #killing #crisis #humanitariancrisis #amnesty #amnestyinternational #scamcompound #concentrationcamp #deathcamp #slavery

Cambodia: Growing humanitarian crisis as escaped scamming compound survivors tell of murder, rape and torture

Thousands of people who recently escaped or were released from scamming compounds in Cambodia where they were subjected to grave abuses including rape and torture are now stranded and in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, Amnesty International said after gathering harrowing testimony from survivors. Interviews with recently enslaved people – almost all foreign nationals – […]

Amnesty International
Show thread@[email protected] has movedJan 29

@davidho.bsky.social Similar topic of concentration camps for profit in Cambodia: " witnessed the murder of a man who had his throat cut by a compound manager after he was caught trying to escape" -- "police visited their compounds regularly, including to remove dead bodies, but without taking any action against the managers" -- "Many people died" -- "murder, rape and torture" -- "evidence pointing towards state complicity or deliberate inaction" -- "Cambodian authorities appear to be doing nothing to help"

That's what Amnesty International is writing:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/01/cambodia-growing-humanitarian-crisis-as-escaped-scamming-compound-survivors-tell-of-murder-rape-and-torture/

I feel

e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t

towards the Cambodian Hun Sen/Hun Manet regime when I am seeing this.

#cambodia #scambodia #hunsen #contempt #hunmanet #murder #abduction #complicity #corruption #khmer #dictatorship #police #killing #crisis #humanitariancrisis #amnesty #amnestyinternational #scamcompound #concentrationcamp #deathcamp #slavery

Cambodia: Growing humanitarian crisis as escaped scamming compound survivors tell of murder, rape and torture

Thousands of people who recently escaped or were released from scamming compounds in Cambodia where they were subjected to grave abuses including rape and torture are now stranded and in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, Amnesty International said after gathering harrowing testimony from survivors. Interviews with recently enslaved people – almost all foreign nationals – […]

Amnesty International
Show thread@[email protected] has movedJan 29

@cxiao Similar topic in Cambodia: " witnessed the murder of a man who had his throat cut by a compound manager after he was caught trying to escape" -- "police visited their compounds regularly, including to remove dead bodies, but without taking any action against the managers" -- "Many people died" -- "murder, rape and torture" -- "evidence pointing towards state complicity or deliberate inaction" -- "Cambodian authorities appear to be doing nothing to help"

That's what Amnesty International is writing:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/01/cambodia-growing-humanitarian-crisis-as-escaped-scamming-compound-survivors-tell-of-murder-rape-and-torture/

I feel

e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t

towards the Cambodian Hun Sen/Hun Manet regime when I am seeing this.

#cambodia #scambodia #hunsen #contempt #hunmanet #murder #abduction #complicity #corruption #khmer #dictatorship #police #killing #crisis #humanitariancrisis #amnesty #amnestyinternational #scamcompound #concentrationcamp #deathcamp #slavery

Cambodia: Growing humanitarian crisis as escaped scamming compound survivors tell of murder, rape and torture

Thousands of people who recently escaped or were released from scamming compounds in Cambodia where they were subjected to grave abuses including rape and torture are now stranded and in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, Amnesty International said after gathering harrowing testimony from survivors. Interviews with recently enslaved people – almost all foreign nationals – […]

Amnesty International
Show thread@[email protected] has movedJan 29

@cxiao Similar topic in Cambodia: "witnessed the murder of a man who had his throat cut by a compound manager after he was caught trying to escape" -- "police visited their compounds regularly, including to remove dead bodies, but without taking any action against the managers" -- "Many people died" -- "murder, rape and torture" -- "evidence pointing towards state complicity or deliberate inaction" -- "Cambodian authorities appear to be doing nothing to help"

That's what Amnesty International is writing:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/01/cambodia-growing-humanitarian-crisis-as-escaped-scamming-compound-survivors-tell-of-murder-rape-and-torture/

I feel

e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t

towards the Cambodian Hun Sen/Hun Manet regime when I am seeing this.

#cambodia #scambodia #hunsen #contempt #hunmanet #murder #abduction #complicity #corruption #khmer #dictatorship #police #killing #crisis #humanitariancrisis #amnesty #amnestyinternational #scamcompound #concentrationcamp #deathcamp #slavery

Cambodia: Growing humanitarian crisis as escaped scamming compound survivors tell of murder, rape and torture

Thousands of people who recently escaped or were released from scamming compounds in Cambodia where they were subjected to grave abuses including rape and torture are now stranded and in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, Amnesty International said after gathering harrowing testimony from survivors. Interviews with recently enslaved people – almost all foreign nationals – […]

Amnesty International
Show thread@[email protected] has movedJan 29

@Obscure_Rebel " witnessed the murder of a man who had his throat cut by a compound manager after he was caught trying to escape" -- "police visited their compounds regularly, including to remove dead bodies, but without taking any action against the managers" -- "Many people died" -- "murder, rape and torture" -- "evidence pointing towards state complicity or deliberate inaction" -- "Cambodian authorities appear to be doing nothing to help"

That's what Amnesty International is writing:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/01/cambodia-growing-humanitarian-crisis-as-escaped-scamming-compound-survivors-tell-of-murder-rape-and-torture/

I feel

e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t

towards the Cambodian Hun Sen/Hun Manet regime when I am seeing this.

#cambodia #scambodia #hunsen #contempt #hunmanet #murder #abduction #complicity #corruption #khmer #dictatorship #police #killing #crisis #humanitariancrisis #amnesty #amnestyinternational #scamcompound #concentrationcamp #deathcamp #slavery

Cambodia: Growing humanitarian crisis as escaped scamming compound survivors tell of murder, rape and torture

Thousands of people who recently escaped or were released from scamming compounds in Cambodia where they were subjected to grave abuses including rape and torture are now stranded and in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, Amnesty International said after gathering harrowing testimony from survivors. Interviews with recently enslaved people – almost all foreign nationals – […]

Amnesty International
Show thread@[email protected] has movedJan 29

@walknews " witnessed the murder of a man who had his throat cut by a compound manager after he was caught trying to escape" -- "police visited their compounds regularly, including to remove dead bodies, but without taking any action against the managers" -- "Many people died" -- "murder, rape and torture" -- "evidence pointing towards state complicity or deliberate inaction" -- "Cambodian authorities appear to be doing nothing to help"

That's what Amnesty International is writing:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/01/cambodia-growing-humanitarian-crisis-as-escaped-scamming-compound-survivors-tell-of-murder-rape-and-torture/

I feel

e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t

towards the Cambodian Hun Sen/Hun Manet regime when I am seeing this.

#cambodia #scambodia #hunsen #contempt #hunmanet #murder #abduction #complicity #corruption #khmer #dictatorship #police #killing #crisis #humanitariancrisis #amnesty #amnestyinternational #scamcompound #concentrationcamp #deathcamp #slavery

Cambodia: Growing humanitarian crisis as escaped scamming compound survivors tell of murder, rape and torture

Thousands of people who recently escaped or were released from scamming compounds in Cambodia where they were subjected to grave abuses including rape and torture are now stranded and in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, Amnesty International said after gathering harrowing testimony from survivors. Interviews with recently enslaved people – almost all foreign nationals – […]

Amnesty International