Governments outside Southeast Asia have a fundamental role in tackling cyber-slavery in the region.
That is the wider lesson from the arrests in India earlier this month of three Indian men suspected of trafficking young Indian graduates to Cambodia, where they found themselves trapped as cyber-slaves. The arrests followed investigative reporting on the case from The News Minute in India.
As in many previous cases, the seven victims from Kerala in southern India were not told that they were going to Cambodia. They were misled into thinking they would be taking legitimate jobs in Thailand. Once in Bangkok, they were transferred across the border to their real destination.
