Cambodia is a known hotspot for forced labor cyber scam operators. So is the Philippines, where authorities recently freed 875 people from a romance scam compound. The camps have even become a ...

Slavery, human trafficking and torture in Cambodia's Scamming Compounds "I was someone else's property" Amnesty visits more ...

A new report published by Amnesty International on Thursday revealed that crime groups in Cambodian labor camps regularly subject individuals to human trafficking, slavery and forced labor, ...

Sheltering in the shade of a bus repurposed into a mobile museum, Mean Loeuy tells a group of children about the hell he went through in a Khmer Rouge labour camp. About 10 kilometres (six miles ...

Jobseekers from Asia and beyond being lured by promise of well-paid work into ‘hellish’ labour camps run by criminal gangs, ...

As a serious example, apparent police collusion is allowing the trafficking and enslavement of huge numbers of people, which ...

The Khmer Rouge forcibly emptied cities and herded people into labor camps, tortured countless others, performed atrocious medical experiments, and committed genocide against intellectuals and ...

Amnesty International report claims the government is turning a blind eye to widespread torture, human trafficking and modern ...

Positive views of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia remained prevalent among scholars, ... Those who survived the evacuation were sent to do agrarian work at labor camps in rural areas.

On April 17, 1975, the victors of the Cambodian Civil War occupied Phnom Penh, the country’s capital, and marched its 2 million inhabitants into the countryside. While Saigon fell in neighboring ...

The Khmer Rouge evacuated the entire capital city of Phnom Penh — a chaotic forced exodus in which thousands died — and for the next four years turned Cambodia into a vast labor camp scattered ...