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More Than 1,000 Flee Myanmar Scam Hub Into Thailand After KK Park Raid

Officials are screening the arrivals to determine who qualifies as a trafficking victim versus an illegal entrant.

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Sawanit Suriyakul Na Ayutthaya, deputy governor of Tak province on the Myanmar border, told AFP on Friday that authorities believed most of those who entered were from KK Park
More than 1,000 people, mostly Chinese, have fled Myanmar into Thailand this week, Thai authorities said, after the Myanmar military raided a major scam centre

Overview

  • Thailand’s Tak provincial office said 1,049 people crossed into Mae Sot from Wednesday to Friday morning, up from 677 reported the previous day.
  • Myanmar’s military raided the KK Park compound this week and reported seizing Starlink satellite internet devices at the site.
  • SpaceX said it disabled more than 2,500 Starlink terminals near suspected scam centers in Myanmar.
  • Thai authorities expanded detention capacity and reported that most of the new arrivals are Chinese men, with others from India, Pakistan, Vietnam, Indonesia and additional countries.
  • Immigration police and military units are applying humanitarian procedures to identify trafficking victims, with others potentially facing prosecution for illegal border crossing.