“You guys cannot go back to Indonesia, you will die here,” Kiki recalled her Chinese supervisor telling her daily during her 3.5-month ordeal trapped in a Cambodian scam compound.
“Every day was filled with screaming. Women weren’t hit, but they constantly screamed in our ears,” she said. “I saw my friend get electrocuted, people getting hit. This was the first time I saw people get hit badly.”
Desperate to escape heartbreak after a divorce, Kiki, a 28-year-old singer from Batam Island, Indonesia, sought a fresh start in Cambodia. Instead, she found herself ensnared in a web of deceit and abuse.
In full: https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/investigative/ordeal-poipet-cambodia-scams/
