Myanmar's army says it wants to eradicate scam compounds. Is it really doing that?

The junta has been demolishing buildings in KK Park, one of the largest and most notorious scam compounds.

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The conflict ignited by the Myanmar military's coup nearly five years ago has come back to the border.

But the fighting this time is linked to the scam compounds, run by Chinese crime syndicates, which have proliferated in Karen State in the past two years.

"We are working to completely eradicate online scam activities from their roots," the Myanmar junta's spokesman Gen Zaw Min Tun said.

But there are good reasons for scepticism about the military's claims.