Cambodia: ‘I was someone else’s property’: slavery, human trafficking and torture in Cambodia’s scamming compounds
In this report, Amnesty International documents the alarming human rights crisis taking place within the scamming industry in Cambodia since 2022. It has identified at least 53 scamming compounds where human rights abuses have taken place or continue to occur, including human trafficking, torture and other ill-treatment, forced labour, child labour, deprivation of liberty and slavery. Amnesty International has also shown a pattern of failed state behaviour which has allowed serious abuses to flourish. The government’s woefully ineffective response and failure to meet its obligations to adequately prevent and investigate the scamming crisis demonstrates its acquiescence and points towards complicity in the human rights abuses taking place.