Why So Many Young People Work Voluntarily in Myanmar’s Scam Compounds

Scam compounds continue to thrive long after a highly publicized international crackdown in February, and the cut-off of electricity, gasoline, and internet to Karen State’s Myawaddy.

Thai lawmaker Kannavee Suebsang, who led the repatriation process of the many foreigners arrested there, was interviewed on the bank of the Moei River that forms the border between Thailand and Myanmar.

“We can even hear the roar of the generators they are using,” he said. “They have never left or stopped “