BANGKOK -- A Myanmar ethnic armed group has asked Thailand to ignore demands by the military regime and to bypass usual immigration processes to facilitate the repatriation of some 600 foreign scam center workers.
Hundreds stranded in ethnic armed group's camp close to Thailand

Thai soldiers receiving some of the 200 multinational victims of scam centers, who were tricked or trafficked into working in Myanmar, in Phop Phra District, Tak province, Thailand on Feb. 12. © Reuters
BANGKOK -- A Myanmar ethnic armed group has asked Thailand to ignore demands by the military regime and to bypass usual immigration processes to facilitate the repatriation of some 600 foreign scam center workers.