Trafficking Victim Alleges His Blood Was Harvested in Sihanoukville

Mech Dara and Cindy Liu
| Thu Feb 17, 2022 10:36 am

In a hospital in Phnom Penh’s Chamkarmon district, a man in his early 30s is receiving a steady drip of two bags of blood a day. He has been there since Friday.

His whole body is swollen, a mark of bloating from his condition, he has been told. Medical staff attend to him carefully. The man says he believes he is now recovering.

The Chinese national this week alleged a scam operation in Cambodia had drawn blood from him multiple times since August, leaving him frail and putting his health at serious risk.

He arrived in Cambodia in June. He had been a security guard in Beijing, but hearing there was better paying work in Guangxi province, near the Vietnamese border, he made the journey.
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He believes he arrived in Sihanoukville on June 27.

Speaking at his Phnom Penh hospital bed this week, the man struggles to breathe. He says his leg is lame from the beatings and electric shocks he received during his months in captivity.

After arriving last year, his first stop was a place he knew as “Jinshui Building 10,” in Sihanoukville’s notorious “Chinatown” precinct near O’Tres beach. There, and elsewhere, he refused to go along with demands that he perpetrate online scams, and as a result he was beaten. “They saw I didn’t know anything, so they sold me,” the man says.

After two weeks at Jinshui, he spent a month and a half at another location in Koh Kong province — where he says he was also beaten — then returned to Chinatown, to a facility he knew as “Kaibo.”

“In August, they started drawing blood from me,” the man says. Since he refused to work, it seemed they were trying to profit from him in another way, he says.

“They didn’t draw blood from everyone. Some left after they got checked. Some had one vial drawn from them and then left. Not like me, my blood type. They drew the most from me. There was another person like me, also blood type O, we were similar. That person left before me. He was sent away.”

A call to the Union Development Group’s Dara Sakor resort in Koh Kong province, where the Chinese man believed he was taken, was met with denial.

“We don’t know about this and we’ve never heard about this. What is his name and where is he now?” a Dara Sakor company representative, who did not give his name, asked. “Our location is huge and it is not only one company in here. You should clarify with him clearly which company he worked for.”

Provincial police in Koh Kong and Preah Sihanouk could not be reached on Wednesday. Koh Kong administrative chief Sek Sam Ol said he had no information about the case.

Sihanoukville city governor Y Sokleng said control of the Chinatown area was beyond his reach.
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Not doubting the veracity of his claims, but is there really a financial incentive to draw blood? What's a liter worth on the black market? I can't imagine it being worth the trouble/risk unless there was a huge shortage somewhere, though gangster will do anything for a dime I guess...

Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 12:30 pm Not doubting the veracity of his claims, but is there really a financial incentive to draw blood? What's a liter worth on the black market? I can't imagine it being worth the trouble/risk unless there was a huge shortage somewhere, though gangster will do anything for a dime I guess...

Maybe times 1,000 victims adds up. The Blood Suckers gang

Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 12:30 pm Not doubting the veracity of his claims, but is there really a financial incentive to draw blood? What's a liter worth on the black market? I can't imagine it being worth the trouble/risk unless there was a huge shortage somewhere, though gangster will do anything for a dime I guess...

Not sure about price but you can get 50$ cash if you go to donate blood in PP. What its then sold for, i dont know but allot more then the donator get for sure.

As he say himself his blood type is more attractive as its harder to get and when its needed you will see people begging online for donators. Some people die when they loose to much blood unable to get their hands on more. A wealthy family that is offered the blood surely would not hesitate to pay a good amount of money for it to save the life of themselves or a loved one.

We will here more reports of the same in weeks, months time because nothing will be done to stop it sadly.

This is terrible.
When are they finally going to do something about it?

Again, we know first-hand about blood donations and that of their doners. Looking more into the situation of why the Khmer give blood or don't as the case maybe more prevalent. There is a number of reasons for the sake of giving blood, one it is something that is done freely at no cost to the donator, and then to the receiver in need. But here again we can see again the corruption in full swing, and our offer of a fee to doners in a time of need was well below the price expected. I received this information by a doctor that paying was wrong at the hospital where my partner at the time was in urgent need of a blood transfusion because of she was exhibiting symptoms of Anemia. I do agree with the doctor and also think blood should be given freely, in the aid of helping people. But where you can help save a person's life there's also someone who will unfortunately make monies from the situation. Those people who are in the organisation of doing such a service are around the donation centre itself, and have a control of the situation.
The other reasons are religious values, the want to help themselves and not others, and of course limiting their own chance of being infected with blood diseases in the process of doing a good deed, such has hepatitis B and C and HIV.