'Escaping hell': Myanmar scam centre workers plead to go home


Conditions in the overcrowded temporary camp in Myawaddy, near the Thai border are squalid and those held there are begging to leave. - AFP

MYAWADDY, Myanmar: Hundreds of exhausted young men lie in an open-sided detention centre in a seedy Myanmar border town, sweating through thick tropical heat by day and prey to clouds of mosquitoes by night.

They are among some 7,000 people from more than two dozen countries released from scam compounds who are now enduring a gruelling wait to be sent home through Thailand.

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