Now, survivors of cyber-scam compounds dominate his time as founder of the Thailand-based Immanuel Foundation.
Conditions are reported to be brutal, with the detainees ruled by violence.
He has received reports of seven killings from inside compounds this year alone and reports of other forced laborers killing themselves, worn out from waiting for help that may never arrive.
“Some, when they cannot escape, they jump off the seventh or 10th floor. They want to die,“ he said. Criminal gangs cashed in on pandemic-induced economic vulnerability and even now, workers come from as far as Ethiopia and India, duped into thinking a paid-for journey to Thailand will yield a worthwhile employment opportunity.
In February, under pressure from China after a well-known Chinese actor, Wang Xing, was trafficked, Myanmar authorities and the Thai government collaborated in the biggest rescue operation yet.
Their ordeal, however, is not yet over. Many of them are waiting to be repatriated in holding centers where access to food and medicine is said to be scarce.
The Immanuel Foundation has rescued more than 2,700 people since 2020.
The call was from one of his 12 staff members reporting that the team succeeded in extracting a Thai woman from a scam center in Cambodia.
Escaped workers say they were given little food or clean water and threatened with beatings or death if quotas were unmet.
He had been attracted to the promise of a high-paying administrative job in South Korea but instead was flown to Mandalay in Myanmar.
Instead he was forced to spend his time creating fake profiles to engage a minimum of five people every day in online relationships.
Well known among forced laborers, Jinnmonca’s personal Facebook pings with messages, typically four new people each day, begging for help and sharing stories like Palit’s.
The cross-border nature of trafficking rescue makes the repatriation process difficult and slow, said Amy Miller, regional director for Southeast Asia at Acts of Mercy International, which supports survivors.
“It’s just a tinder box ready to go up in flames.”
“I don’t feel super confident that this is actually a reform of the compounds or that they’re going to shut down,“ she said.
Jinnmonca said he believes the most effective way to protect against trafficking and the scams is to imprison the masterminds at the top.
Instead, he said, the workers are targeted by authorities.
They were accused of being complicit in cyber crime and kidnapping because their language skills gave them leadership roles in the compound’s living quarters.
But they were victims as well, said Jinnmonca, and such arrests mean workers rescued from the clutches of criminal gangs in one country may face prison in another.
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