When he finally returned home in October 2023, Xu Bochun only had to pass his hand through his hair to fall. His body had pain. In three months, fear had changed it. Just today, his eyes are fine while he related his order in a quiet voice: twelve weeks at the hands of the mafias of online fraud, caught in an old hotel in a guerrilla hero area or in the northeast of Myanmar.
It all started in Shanghai at the beginning of the summer of 2023. Xu, then 37, dreamed of becoming a film actor but decided on roles as extra. For three years, since the beginning of the Covid-19 epidemic, he had a leg without stable job. Then, when a new contact in a group of candidates for film actors in the Wechat messaging service offered him the opportunity to film a television program, he thought his opportunity had arrived. The rate was decent (€ 1,300 for one month), and the series was It is supposed to be widely distributed on Chinese television.
Xu sent some samples of his previous work. His interviewer quickly confirmed that his application had accepted Bone. The production sent a train ticket to Yunnan, on the other side of the country. After a two -day trip, the 30 of the 30 reached the direction of the addresses in Xishuangbanna, one of the cities closest to the Myanmar border. When a man took his identification card and his phone, Xu was not too worried: filming equipment sometimes ask for the identification card to deal with accommodation.
Zone without law
Three other men waited in silence with him the trip to the location of the film. Other actors like him, he presumed. After a long hour by car in a white car, they were asked to continue on foot since the night was fun. They discovered that there were no technicians or cameras in this remote area, only the men with weapons that ordered them to follow them: they had help to the smuggling products from Thailand from Myanmar to China. Border traffic, in summary.
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