Women in the Northern Myanmar Hellhole: Escaping the Compound

I believed the high-paying job ads for northern Myanmar. In the compounds there, a person’s performance could determine whether they lived or died.

Electric shocks, beatings, branding irons, pulled-out fingernails, water torture, solitary confinement, live burials, drowning in rivers, dumping bodies, drug addiction used for control, psychological torment, brainwashing, salt rubbed into wounds, locked in dark cells, being used as a blood slave, livestreaming, and more!

These inhuman methods of control happened every day. Over the course of more than two hundred days, I watched one coworker after another fall victim to pig-butchering scams, investment fraud, romance scams…

I saw my best friend die in the dark cell next door. I saw the top “sales champion” become an ID number put up for public auction overnight.

I saw so many people try to escape.

The water in the torture tank reached chest level, and it was filled with mud and maggots…