Charities and aid workers have called for urgent international government support for victims of south-east Asia’s deadly scam compounds, following a damning report by Amnesty International.
The numbers of survivors of cyberscam “farms” left destitute and abandoned on the city streets of Cambodia and Myanmar is an “international crisis”, according to the research published in January.
Aid workers say not enough humanitarian organisations are stepping up to support survivors of the scam farms, despite the mounting number of foreigners sleeping on the streets and in need of food.
Hundreds of thousands of people from more than 50 countries are estimated to be trapped inside vast…