The man on the other end of the line murmured softly, “I swear to God, I need help.”
The Ethiopian, who goes by Mike, claimed that he and 450 other people are being detained at a building inside Myanmar, which is located near Thailand.
In what seems to be the worst action taken against the sector along the Thai-Myanmar border to yet, they are among the thousands of people who have been released from the infamous fraud compounds that have flourished on the border for years.
However, because it takes so long to evaluate them and set up flights back to their home countries, many of them are currently stuck in improvised camps in Myanmar.
