China Executes 11 Members of Myanmar Scam Mafia (bbc.com)
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/02/01/0540213/china-executes-11-members-of-myanmar-scam-mafia
- Source link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2gdrvy9gjo
> China has executed 11 members of a notorious mafia family that ran scam centres in Myanmar along its north-eastern border, state media report.
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> The Ming family members were sentenced in September for various crimes including homicide, illegal detention, fraud and operating gambling dens by a court in China's Zhejiang province. The Mings were one of many clans that ran the town of Laukkaing, transforming an impoverished backwater town into a flashy hub of casinos and red-light districts. Their scam empire came crashing down in 2023, when they were detained and handed over to China by ethnic militias that had taken control of Laukkaing during an escalation in their conflict with Myanmar's army. With these executions Beijing is sending a message of deterrence to would-be scammers.
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> But the business has now moved to Myanmar's border with Thailand, and to Cambodia and Laos, where China has much less influence.
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> Hundreds of thousands of people have been trafficked to run online scams in Myanmar and elsewhere in South East Asia, according to estimates by the UN. Among them are thousands of Chinese people, and their victims who they swindle billions of dollars from are mainly Chinese too. Frustrated by the Myanmar military's refusal to stop the scam business, from which it was almost certainly profiting, Beijing tacitly backed an offensive by an ethnic insurgent alliance in Shan State in late 2023. The alliance captured significant territory from the military and overran Laukkaing, a key border town.
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Death penalty is rarely an effective crime deterre (Score:2)
Not to mention barbaric. This unfortunately won't do much to curb scams. New scammers appear and just relocate.
Re: Death penalty is rarely an effective crime det (Score:3)
Says who? You?
Re: Death penalty is rarely an effective crime de (Score:2)
Vorers don't want deterrence or rehabilitation, they want vengeance.
Re: Death penalty is rarely an effective crime de (Score:2)
TFS.
Re: Death penalty is rarely an effective crime det (Score:3)
Are you stupid? If you donâ(TM)t punish the crime more people do it and the most brutal the punishment the less people want to risk doing it. Those assholes scammed elderly out of their money for their final years. The world is a better place without those assholes.
Re: Death penalty is rarely an effective crime de (Score:2)
If you wanted a meaningful response, you wouldn't have started with those 3 words.
Re: Death penalty is rarely an effective crime det (Score:2)
My point had nothing to do with having a bleeding heart. It was whether DP is effective at deterring future crimes, by which I meant similar crimes committed by other people, not by those executed. And research doesn't show that It does.
Re: (Score:2)
You should thank him. Bleeding hearts are the reason Donald Trump was able to navigate his way into becoming your president.
Well done (Score:1)
They kidnap Chinese people and turn them into slaves doing scam calls, probably never to be seen again.
Well, I guess that's finally the end of (Score:3)
... the Ming Dynasty.
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They had nice vases in Laukkaing, although they were a little pricey.