Escape from ‘garden of hell’


Reunited: Victims of job scams in Myanmar safe in the arms of their family members on arriving at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport. — AZMAN GHANI/ The Star

SEPANG: For Mohd Farhan Azman who survived a brutal four months of beatings in a large barb-wired compound in Myanmar, the experience was “a living hell”.

The job scam victim was repeatedly beaten so much that he became numb and was even starved when he refused to work as a European love scammer at a makeshift town called “KK Garden”.

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