We are talking about people forced to conduct telecom scams in the Chinese language. The overwhelming majority of Chinese speakers in the world are PRC citizens. Of course, there are Chinese speakers who are not PRC citizens and there are indeed some reports of Taiwanese and Malaysian Chinese victims, but my guess is that they make up only a small minority of the human trafficking victims.
Perhaps my previous post was not worded clearly. These scammers did NOT go into China and grab tens of thousands of PRC citizens from PRC territory. The human trafficking victims come from all over China and were lured or tricked into voluntarily travelling to Myanmar, Thailand, or some other location in SE Asia where they were kidnapped.
The 500,000 yuan rewards were on Ming Xuechang and other members of the Ming family of Kokang. The Ming family only ran 1 of the 1,000+ scam centers in Myanmar. By no means were they any sort of mastermind for all the human trafficking in Myanmar. They weren't even that important in Kokang as the Ming family was only the fifth most powerful family in Kokang.
What is extraordinary about the warrants and rewards on the Ming family is that they were issued by the municipal police department of Wenzhou city in Zhejiang province, over 2,000km away from Myanmar. AFAIK, local municipal police departments in China don't often issue warrants and rewards for the arrests of foreign government officials and their family members. It is even more extraordinary that a couple of weeks later, the family members and the dead body of the wanted foreign government official were simply handed to China by that foreign government without any fuss. IMO, this suggests that the stories going around about the Ming family murdering a large number of Chinese citizens that tried to escape from their scam center, including several undercover Chinese cops, is likely to be true. The undercover Chinese cops, as well as some of the other victims, are likely from Wenzhou, which would explain why it was the municipal police department of Wenzhou that issued the arrest warrants and rewards on the Ming family.
Note that the scam centers are all over Myanmar. The ones in Kokang make up only a small fraction of the total. According to Chinese internet discussions, the largest group of scam centers are actually located in the Karen ethnic areas around Myanmar's border with Thailand, where China has little direct influence.
Also note that the 10/20 incident was said to have happened when the captives at the Ming family site were being moved to other sites far from the Chinese border due to pressure from the Chinese government to shutdown the scam centers in Kokang. Other scam centers in Kokang were likely doing the same thing around the same time period. In other words, the thousands of people being handed over from Kokang now are only what still remains in Kokang after many have been transferred out of Kokang already.
Even if only 10% of the 100,000+ human trafficking victims are PRC citizens (I doubt the percentage is actually that low), that's still 10,000+ PRC victims. Furthermore, even if all the victims are only ethnic Chinese and not PRC citizens, China is still completely justified to take action IMO, including actions that violate Myanmar's sovereignty.
