Following the previous commitment of the Karen Border Guard, the release of foreigners within the Karen State Crime Park began on the 17th. The Royal Thai Police have prepared for the handover and arranged staff to enter Myawaddy to coordinate related matters, and have also cleared the Mae Sot prison in Tak to receive and accommodate personnel from the Karen State Park.
The Karen Border Guard stated that they had found about 7,000 foreigners during the raid on the park, and from the 17th, they began transferring 500 people per day to Thailand. Thai police, together with consulates of relevant countries in Thailand, are identifying the deceived and criminals.
A delegation from the major country's Six Ministries arrived in Mae Sot, Thailand, yesterday to inspect Thailand's reception workflow and facilities. They stated that they will use the handover method from Northern Myanmar in 2024, where the major country will send planes to Mae Sot to repatriate their citizens, who will then travel by car accompanied by Thai military and police officials through the Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge No. 2 to Myawaddy Gutter Valley, where they met with Major General Aung Kyaw Kyaw from the Myanmar Ministry of Interior and inspected the preparations for the release in Karen State.
According to the Sino-Thai cooperation agreement, Thailand's cooperation in cutting off electricity and telecommunications in Eastern Myanmar is expected to reduce criminal activities in Karen State by 50%. Both parties will also share financial crime data, aiming to cut off money laundering activities in the Karen State Park, but the effectiveness is unknown due to the involvement of Thai financial capital interests and American cryptocurrency exchanges.
To completely eliminate the transnational crime park in Karen State and the release and transfer of park personnel depend entirely on Suu Kyi's supervision and the Karen Border Guard. They are participants and beneficiaries of the transnational criminal activities in Karen State, and it is unrealistic to expect them to willingly cooperate in the crackdown. Suu Kyi, a warlord who commands his own troops, is certainly unwilling to give up the huge benefits brought by the park. Aware of the precedent set by Bai Socheng, he also understands the risks of stubborn resistance.
The current situation is that Suu Kyi, under pressure for self-preservation, has made limited compromises. The Karen Border Guard pretends to have found suspicious individuals in the crime park, and the released personnel are actually those Suu Kyi intends to abandon. He has already started transferring the core members of the Myawaddy crime park. With a release rate of 500 people per day, at most 15,000 people will be released in a month, compared to the 100,000 people scale of the Karen State transnational crime park. Suu Kyi has ample time to maneuver. Even under the conditions of power, internet, and oil cut-offs in Thailand, he can still keep the park operational through alternative power sources in Myanmar and gradually move the criminal gangs to a new park to continue their misdeeds, evading joint crackdown operations.
