Myanmar verabschiedet ein Gesetz, das die Todesstrafe für Betrüger vorsieht
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-28/myanmar-passes-law-allowing-the-death-penalty-for-scam-operators
Myanmar verabschiedet ein Gesetz, das die Todesstrafe für Betrüger vorsieht
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-28/myanmar-passes-law-allowing-the-death-penalty-for-scam-operators
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*From Bloomberg News reporter Khine Lin Kyaw:*
Myanmar’s military-backed parliament passed a law Tuesday authorizing the death penalty for forced labor in cyber-scam operations, escalating the consequences for an industry that has exploded across the conflict-torn nation.
The Anti-Online Scam Bill mandates 10-year to life prison sentences for violence, torture, or unlawful detention used to coerce people into conducting cyber fraud. If such abuse results in a victim’s death, “the death penalty shall be imposed,“ according to the legislation passed by the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, or Union Parliament.
Online scam networks have proliferated across Southeast Asia since the pandemic, turning Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos into hubs for transnational criminal syndicates targeting victims across the globe.
I don’t know how to interpret this.
Junta attempting to appease an international audience perhaps?
I hate scammers, but not more than I hate warmongers and mass murders.
For the people who own the operations and make most of the money, right? Not just some desperate guy making a few bucks?
Headline might sound extreme but the people operating those scam centers in south east asia fully deserve death.
However, i have no faith that the current government of myanmar wont simply use this as an excuse to target their opposition. Maybe some people in the middle tier of the scam operations get removed but the people at the top are mostly chinese and will have face no consequences
just
I would never put my faith in the government of Myanmar. I saw first hand the effects of their rule during a brief visit when the country was relatively safe in 2013. Thatcher was enough. We had brought a group of students to research human trafficking and supply chains in order to start a youth led anti-trafficking campaign in Aus. We were fortunate to tour with local young people as well.
My memories range from wonderful people to government minders, to sites where children were forced to work in quarries, and meeting survivors of trafficking.
I still have former colleagues who work in anti-trafficking. It’s brutal but important. They first alerted me to the scam centres. What I learned about trafficking when I was there was how mundane it all is. Someone is promised a job, they leave their village, and the promised job isn’t what they thought. Then when they try to leave, they can’t. Maybe it’s physical threats – maybe they have no passport. Whatever it is, the image of someone getting black bagged, drugged, and thrown in a van isn’t the main way people get trafficked. It’s through going along willingly, often out of desperation (and increasingly due to climate change upending farming etc), and then realising too late that they’re trapped.
I moved from NZ to Aus 16 years ago in a job transfer. It never occurred to me the job might not exist, and I might end up trapped, unable to leave – but that’s the reality in Myanmar, Cambodia, and other SEA countries. These industrial scale scamming sites are exploiting not only people in the west through scams, but also the very people who are forced to do the scamming.
India should do the same
Yes! Will it stop them? No!
This is ethnic cleansing of the Chinese
This is an anti-Indian law.
> The Anti-Online Scam Bill mandates 10-year to life prison sentences for violence, torture, or unlawful detention used to coerce people into conducting cyber fraud. If such abuse results in a victim’s death, “the death penalty shall be imposed,“ according to the legislation passed by the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, or Union Parliament.
Foreigner being told there was job opportunity, such as smuggling gold /diamond, or meetings their lover from online dating, then being kidnapped. Victims are foced to scam other, ask their family to pay ransom, or being beaten to death.
Kidnappers deserve death penalty. I wish Myanmar safe and wealthy without crime.
Lets fuckin goooooo
Scam is modern burglary
…who don’t pay the junta protection money.
do this in bangladesh and half of the country dies
How can I send the people sending me the same exact scam voicemail 8 times a day to Myanmar?
Very good I guess. Now if they just crack down in the other countries doing it – Cambodia especially – they could fix the problem.