Karen communities make request for internation cooperation, action by Thailand

Mizzima

On 3 December, thirty Karen community organisation in Myanmar, Thailand, and across the word issued a call for international cooperation supported by action from the Thai government to support the crackdown by the Karen National Union (KNU) against scam centres in the Myawaddy area.

The text of the statement is as follows.

We strongly call for urgent international cooperation with the Karen National Union (KNU)  following the KNU’s crackdown on a major transnational scam center in Min Let Pan, Kawthoolei’s Dooplaya District (Myawaddy Township, Burma).

The KNU has exposed extensive transnational criminal networks, with torture structures and weapons, where thousands of people are confined. To tackle this effectively, the KNU has called for serious international cooperation. There have been frequent artillery shelling as well as airstrikes by the Burmese military in an effort to disturb the KNU’s operation and destroy the evidence of those transnational criminal activities.