Some 5,000 Chinese nationals will be sent home at a rate of 1,000 a week, starting next week, Thai foreign ministry spokesman Nikorndej Balankura told reporters.
Cyberscam operations, which have thrived in Myanmar’s lawless border areas for several years, lure foreign workers with promises of high-paying jobs but hold them hostage and force them into committing online fraud.
The freed workers are now languishing in sometimes squalid conditions in holding camps near the Thai border while officials organise their repatriation.
Many workers say they were trafficked or tricked into taking the work and suffer beatings and abuse, but the government in China has so far treated them as criminal suspects.
The United Nations estimates that as many as 120,000 people -- many of them Chinese men -- may be working in Myanmar scam centres against their will.
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