"Forced to Do 2,000 Squats for Missing Targets, Electric Shocks When Unconscious": Thai Woman in Her 20s Dies in Cambodia

Husband Also Missing... Whereabouts Unknown
Electric Shocks Used to Revive After Passing Out from Forced Squats

Cremation facility inside Tukthla Temple located in the center of Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. Photo by Yonhap News

A woman in her twenties who had been working for a scam organization in Cambodia was discovered before her cremation after her death. According to the organization that first confirmed the incident, if this woman failed to meet her daily income target, she was forced to do between 1,000 and as many as 2,000 squats. During this process, she lost consciousness and never regained it, resulting in her death.

According to the Thai daily The Nation and other sources on November 14 (local time), the Emmanuel Foundation, a Thai organization supporting victims of scam organizations, tracked down and found the body of a woman in her twenties known as Suda at a temple in Phnom Penh.

Suda, who is the fourth Thai national to die as a result of a Cambodian scam organization, was being prepared for cremation when, thanks to the foundation's efforts, her body was placed at the Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh. Procedures are currently underway to repatriate her to Thailand so she can be reunited with her family.

The Emmanuel Foundation stated, "Without our efforts, she would have been cremated in vain," adding, "She is currently under the care of the Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh, and we are waiting for her to be repatriated to her birthplace according to embassy procedures."

According to the foundation, Suda died while being punished for not meeting her work quota. She was forced to do between 1,000 and 2,000 squats until she lost consciousness, and high-voltage electric shocks were used in an attempt to revive her, but she ultimately did not wake up and died.

Suda's husband has also reportedly gone missing in Thailand, and his whereabouts remain unknown. The foundation expressed anger, saying, "They run a scam call center and call themselves a company. If that's the case, we would rather call them a 'pest control company.'"

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