Myanmar finally seriously cracks down on fraudulent call centers, destroys buildings, but causes damage in Thailand.
The Shwe Kokko fraud center was seized on November 19, resulting in the arrest of over 300 Chinese nationals, while the KK Park explosions damaged homes on the Thai border.
Major military operation against the Shwe Kokko complex
Employees of the Shwe Kokko call center arrested by Myanmar soldiers. Photo: The Nation Thailand.
On November 19, 2025, journalists along the Thailand-Myanmar border in Tak Province confirmed a major military operation.
The Burmese army, Myawaddy police and Karen Border Guard Force (BGF) have launched a large-scale offensive to regain control of the fraudulent Shwe Kokko complex in Myawaddy Township, Karen State.
Previously, these centers were under the control and protection of the BGF (Karen Border Guard Force), a Karen force integrated into the Burmese junta.
Following pressure from China and threats from Thailand of legal action against BGF leaders, they appear to have decided to turn against their former associates, the Chinese mafia who run these scam centers.
See: Thailand wants arrest warrants for allies of the Burmese junta
The Shwe Kokko complex is located opposite Ban Wang Pha in Mae Ramat District and Ban Wang Kaew and Mae Pa in Mae Sot District, Tak Province.
The authorities have arrested 346 foreign nationals, mostly Chinese, and detained them in a secure building.
Computer equipment found in the Shwe Kokko call center. Photo The Nation Thailand
Burmese agents have also seized a large quantity of equipment used for illegal activities, including computers, laptops and mobile phones, which will be examined as evidence for prosecution.
The area has been cordoned off to prevent foreign nationals from escaping.
The BGF imposes strict travel controls
Lieutenant Colonel Nay Maung Soe, Deputy Commander of the Border Guard Force (BGF) in Myawaddy, Kayin State, Myanmar.
BGF officials said Shwe Kokko was now under strict control:
- Foreigners are not allowed to leave the area.
- Only Myanmar citizens and local residents with an ID card issued by the BGF can enter or leave the area.
The Myanmar army, BGF, and Myawaddy police will continue their crackdown on scam networks in the region.
The explosions during the demolition of KK Park caused shockwaves in Thailand
Photo of KK Park in Myanmar, taken from Thailand, before its demolition. Photo: Orfonline
Information indicates that the Myanmar forces, in collaboration with the BGF, continued the demolition of the fraudulent "KK Park" complex, operated by Chinese, in the Aeng Jemeang area of Myawaddy.
The site is located just across from Ban Mae Ku Mai Tha Sung, Village 9, Mae Ku sub-district, Mae Sot district, Thailand.
The ongoing explosions used to destroy the complex have caused significant damage to Thai homes, with metal debris and concrete fragments being projected over the Moei River towards the Thai side.
The loud explosions and tremors have also caused severe psychological distress among residents on the Thai border.
Five Thai houses damaged by explosions
On the evening of November 18, 2025, Burmese forces detonated explosives twice in administrative buildings inside KK Park.
The shockwaves shook neighboring Thai communities and damaged at least five houses, including:
- Natthawat Wongwaew – recurrent damage for the 52nd time; ceiling collapse, dropped recessed lights, cracks in walls, and detachment of the sliding glass door.
- Saichon Kampaeng – fallen ceiling panels needing replacement.
- Chan Watha – large hole in the ceiling.
- Nongkran Chaimon – dislodged front door.
- Phairoj Chimket – ceiling collapse.
Residents report that damage to homes from explosions at the border is becoming increasingly frequent.
- Myanmar has regained control of the Shwe Kokko scam center and arrested 346 foreign nationals, mostly Chinese.
- The BGF now imposes strict control over entries and exits in the area, previously protected by its own forces.
- The demolition of the KK Park complex caused explosions that damaged at least five homes in Thailand, causing significant distress among local residents.
See also:
Thailand: New kidnapping of Chinese by Burmese call centers
Cambodia: Atrocious death of a Thai tortured in a call center
Cambodia allegedly provokes Thailand to protect scam centers
Crackdown on cybercriminals in Cambodia and Myanmar
FBI and eight countries with Thailand against Cambodian call centers
Source: The Nation Thailand
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1 comment
As the article says: "FINALLY !!!"
It remains to be seen how the military forces will manage this new geopolitical situation in the coming days, weeks, and months.
Regarding the method used for the destruction of the buildings, one can wonder about the ability of the Burmese Army and armed militias to master and control programmed explosions on known targets…
The destruction of the buildings could have been done using construction tools, bulldozers, cranes, excavators, and not explosives, to spare collateral damage to Thai houses located several hundred meters away from the explosion site.
The Burmese military apparently do not have sufficient technical and logistical knowledge in the specific field of building demolition regarding the quantity, type of explosives to use, and how to place them in the buildings to be destroyed, to limit the impact of destruction to the exclusive targeted area, without causing other civilian damage within a radius of several hundred meters !!!
But the fight against Burmese centers is not over yet, and several other sites, located further north, near the Thai and Lao borders and closer to the southern border of China, are still active, unless, in a panic, the mafia antennas operating in this region, fearing a similar military operation against them, decide to desert, leaving (perhaps) their forced laborers on site and alive!
This region is also the one where synthetic drugs ("ya ba" amphetamines) are produced and rare earths are exploited, which release toxic quantities of arsenic and heavy metals into the rivers that continue their course into the Thai valleys of Chiang Rai province…
A problem that has fallen back into the obscure and silent section of the news, but still exists and remains unresolved, despite the installation of filtering dams whose 100% real effectiveness can be doubted in the long term on the health of the populations living in these polluted regions, essentially agricultural areas that use the water from these rivers for their crops and food!!!
To return to the call centers, I would be curious to see, in the coming days or weeks, the psychological impact (assuming there is any reaction, which is not guaranteed!) of this operation on the attitude of the Cambodian authorities and mafia cartels linked to the good hundred centers installed in Cambodia, whose dismantling provided for in the ceasefire agreement imposed by Donald Trump between Thailand and Cambodia has still not been followed by any effect whatsoever…
All that falls from these buildings are the tortured slaves who commit suicide by throwing themselves out of a window on the upper floors !!!