Families of victims caught in the nightmare of northern Myanmar
Author: Zhang Xinyu
Published in the 2023th issue of China Newsweek magazine on July 7, 3
As more and more young people are lured to Myanmar wire fraud companies with high salaries, relatives of the victims have also gathered on the Internet. To learn their stories, I went into two rescue and mutual aid groups of hundreds of family members.
Chen Xin and Chen Tong were the first people in the mutual aid group to contact me on their own initiative, and they were also the relatives of the two victims with whom I communicated the most. Their younger brother was tricked into moving to the Mujie region in northern Myanmar and spent more than two months at a wire fraud company. In order to rescue their younger brother, they went to the public security organs in many places, and finally connected with the public security organs of Ruili bordering Sister Mu, and asked the Ruili public security organs to send a letter of assistance to the public security organs of their place of residence. After that, Chen Tong went to Ruili with the police of the police station of his place of residence to submit more information to the Ruili police. In order to wait for news, Chen Tong lived in Ruili for nearly three weeks. When recalling that experience, Chen Tong always choked up.
From Monday to Friday, Chen Tong goes to the Ruili Public Security Bureau almost every day to ask for news, and another place she must go every day is Ruili Port. According to the positioning sent back by her brother, Chen Tong knew that the park he was in was only a few kilometers away from the national gate, and she often guarded the national gate and cried in the direction of Myanmar. "I wish I could rush directly to the gate of their park, but I couldn't get by." She said.
Chen Tong's husband runs takeout during the day, and her 4-year-old daughter takes the children after school. The daughter did not understand why her mother never came home, crying every day to call Chen Tong, she could only say, "Mother went to find her uncle, and when she finds her uncle, my mother will go home." Chen Tong lost more than a dozen pounds and relied on drugs to sleep almost every night. Later, her father gradually couldn't hold on, telling Chen Tong on the phone that he wanted to drink pesticides and "forget it."
So they gave up waiting, managed to contact a powerful middleman in Myanmar, and spent more than 30,30 yuan to "pay" their younger brother. In order to scrape together <>,<> yuan, Chen Xin borrowed money from friends everywhere, another younger brother took out the money he had saved for many years to get married, Chen Tong had not worked for several years, could not get money, could only contribute, asking around where to borrow online loans.
Even so, in the rescue mutual aid group, Chen Xin and Chen Tong are still the luckiest people. They successfully got the Ruili police to issue a letter of assistance, and they could also raise the efforts of the whole family to make up hundreds of thousands of yuan, while many relatives of the deceived in the group would only get the answer that "there is no law enforcement power abroad", let alone come up with such a large amount of money.
Most of the victims and their families are from rural areas, and many of the deceived's relatives are incomplete in reading and can only communicate with others in the group.
A police officer who persuaded people to return told me that recently, the high school entrance examination and the college entrance examination have been completed, and a group of young people who cannot go to school and cannot find a job will go to Myanmar, and when they are deceived, they will have to spend a lot of money at home to rescue them...
China Newsweek, Issue 2023, 24
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