23. November 2023
Ming Zhenzhen and Ming Guoping in handcuffs, hold by Chinese police. Picture by Chinese Public Ministry
Jonathan Head of BBC describes, how online scam operations in the Wild West boom town Laukkiang in Shan State, near the border with China, were protected by Myanmars Military Junta and then terminated by rebel armys called Brotherhood Alliance and Chinese Police. Ming Guoping and Ming Zhenzhen are son and granddaughter of one of the powerful warlords who have run the town of Laukkaing for the past 14 years. The warlord himself - Ming Xuechang - died, Myanmars military said, he had taken his own life after being captured. Ming Xuechang was a henchman of Bai Suocheng, who heads one of the godfather families running criminal businesses in Laukkaing.
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