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They escaped appalling conditions in scam factories. Now, they are living on the streets in Cambodia

  • Written by Ivan Franceschini, Lecturer, Chinese Studies, The University of Melbourne
They escaped appalling conditions in scam factories. Now, they are living on the streets in CambodiaIndonesians freed from scam centres wait outside the Indonesian embassy in Phnom Penh for help returning home.Magdalena Chodownik/Anadolu via Getty Images

“I was running from the war, and I got to a war again.” This is how Eric, a young man from central Africa, described how he ended up at a scam compound in Cambodia – and then...

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