so it says to move back to the basic goals facing the country, features to the the guessing pushed back even from their own family showed done by soon. so seeking a self determined life, douglas escaped from drudgery and abuse the oldest fist on d. w. you're watching dw news asia coming up to date, false accusations in foreign lands, aging, new tactic to go after chinese human rights activists and their families. also on the show, the migrants who make the deadly journey across the mediterranean,

often do not understand the dangers. and that is because of the human smugglers on social media app. like take talk, we'll take a closer look the . my name is melissa chan, thanks for joining us. the chinese state or pro badging proxy actors has started to target human rights activists who live abroad. they do this by making false bomb threats, against hotels and embassies, giving the name of the dissident as the perpetrator. so what happens next is the police, whether in europe or the middle east or asia arrests, the dissident. in some cases the situation is cleared up quickly and they are let go. but in others it becomes consequential. most recently in bangkok, the wife and to children of an exiled chinese dissident,

were escaping china. and on their way to freedom in the netherlands when they had their e. u. v says we're a vote following the bomb threat. then ty, authorities detained them. here's go, pung, the sun. we counting their experience was if you don't 5. huh. yeah. so i was terrified and angry when i heard the accusation. thomasville and i cannot accept their false accusations in slander or was it just what, what else? my father told me that they also asked the type police to arrest and what, what if we need a little issued a warrant type, kind of thing. so hard on tie. what type when he was joining us as bethany alan. every human she is the china reporter at x hughes and was the 1st to report on this new chinese tactic back in the spring. she is also author of badging rules, how china weaponized it's economy to confront the world. i mean, would it be fair to call that you officials in this instance useful idiots. i mean, they sell for it, right?

the rowboat, these visas and now we have a valuable chinese family in danger. you know, i think it's a, it's a difficult situation because for the whole reason that you know what, what gals family leaves and what other uh, you know, activists who have been subject to similar tactics believe is that the chinese government, that the chinese state is ultimately behind these false bomb threats and, and to be clear, no bombs have been found in any of these instances. and, but knowing that there are such things as, you know, real bomb threats that are made against, against embassies against a hotel chains. and so it's already is do have to, to investigate. but what's gas family in particular, it's not clear, especially given my previous reporting follow up reporting from a and, you know, a very positive, very clear reporting environment in the netherlands. that with this is now well

known tactics. it's not clear why that, you know this families asylum application has not been reactivated. let's talk about ty authorities. how are they handling this? well, with the government of thailand is, is very close to china and that has been true for a number of years. if you look back in the 2010, the tide government deported dozens of riggers back to china despite it being very clear that those riggers would not face any kind of justice there. and indeed those, those men who were reported to back to china have not been seen again so many pro democracy acts of this or train. this it is who are outside of china. don't travel to thailand for this, for this very reason that they know that the tire authorities are not going to be on the side of sacks or a justice, but are likely to do the bidding of,

of the chinese government. now you reported on this bomb threat tactics back in the spring, it doesn't appear as governments, particularly there immigration officials or law enforcement, or any more aware of this frightening development. and what have you seen in terms of reaction and response, the right to the story that actually was reported back in march and april related to 3 different people in 3 different countries wanting you in the netherlands. i'm assuming you, tom, in germany and bob flew in the united states who is now us citizen. and there were bomb threats made in their names against luxury hotel chains, in, in more than just those 3 countries. and we can confirm around 9 countries, and the authorities in different countries have reacted differently. now, bob flew in the us is, you know, well known and well respected and us, you know,

authorities. so if you talk to investigators about it, you know, he said that he spoke with the guy's office of trans national oppression. and through tongue in germany, told me that she has been working with the german police on an investigation. you know, looking at who has been behind this harassment winding you, it has reported this to josh authorities. he has been not very pleased with their reaction and not the same is true for a adult supporter of a woman who has been also covering this. and she is also said that the doctor stories are not taking it seriously or not being proactive about investigating and not doing enough to help the people who are the targets of this kind of a threat. now this is basically if, if the chinese government isn't behind these false contracts, they're essentially what the nice thing local law enforcement to try to harass and perhaps even get these wanted pro democracy activist deported back to china. and if

that's the case, that is really an escalation and what we have seen in the chinese government tactics of extra territorial transnational or oppression. try to bring a back people to china, bethany allen and abraham in thank you so much for joining us. more than 100000 migrants have made the dangerous journey across the mediterranean . it's so far this year and more than 2000 have died or gone missing. many of these people are from asia, including bangladesh, afghanistan, and pakistan. 90 percent of migrants who enter the european union, k human smugglers who over promise and under deliver, often with the deadly consequences. looking at the footage of these boats, you may wonder why people sign up for such a deadly trip. there are many reasons,

but one is because of this information and miss information online. and let's get more on this from dw reporter finish job it on benin. how are human traffickers using social media? and it's not bad or the social media? they have presence on youtube, on facebook. i'm very actively working on that doc. i'm open from accounts that appear to be of human smart plugs. regularly video content is uploaded and on this video, so you can see migrant sometimes getting out of god out of drugs or sometimes walking into the country that they were drunk promised by human difficulties. and then some of the review of these migrants are getting testimonies. and telling that, you know, the introducing them says and thing that we have 50 reached austria or, or it lee. and then the human traffickers, us them about the services. and they use the system known as deem which data

for to the in the can a journey that they get from the as you mean, like you've got gang, he's got game yes for basically human death because on the one by the game. and so they would say that, you know, his game is very professional, his game is very comfortable. and to also use words like donkey like dec fee for all of these terms are being used in this business. and human jessica's are making these convincing videos and trying to establish their credit ability that they are offering the best services off. because migration this journey costs a lot of money, people have to save up for years before they hand over money. i mean, it seems like the smugglers are, are very convincing them. yeah. and, and they make really emotional videos. it's a tactic that they use often in these videos, they put on job these rap music and some of the admitted, for example,

i give an example of one of the amused of the song that they often use implies. so that you, i'm not to cross the border. so basically, uh, illegals, migration is an october priority. heroism, behaviorism. and one of the songs that another song that they use is it implies that it requires a lot of garbage and, and a big heart to become part of the game. because who wants to sell photo loan, who wants to live alone. but to have to do it to provide for your family. so basically, visual mind the size, the concept of migration and, and this, these songs are not only used by human smugglers on their, be to us, but also by migrants who are taking these journeys. and the lot of people are following these accounts and getting inspired and believing that it's a fantasy worth of do you talk about a lot of people following these accounts? uh, would it be easy for someone like me or youtube to follow these accounts?

yeah. some other sites, not so difficult actually i did it. um, so i created an account and i started following a few of them in small clubs and i contacted one of them. and i asked for the particular service of the game, and i asked, i use this word that is that our game will really be from one destination to another. and i was promised, and i was doors that you know, whatever. so with this i, which of meet up, you know, the able to be, they really provide me the list offices. and i was surprised how easy it was for me to contact the human smuggler, often on facebook and on youtube, youtube. and also wanted to see people commenting on these videos, and there is a communication going on between human smuggler and people. but minutes that this is only one side of the story, which is very noisy and beautiful, but the reality is a lot of people who take up these journeys. it's a, it's, it's a dangerous journey. thousands of people have, have died in these journeys. and we cannot forget what happened in june,

the ship that gift the size of the cost of these hundreds of people died in more than $350.00. well from buck is done and only 12 survived. so let's have a listen to what wonder if the survive was towards d w about what his situation was when he was being helped by human jessica in libya, a heavy but almost go down. it was a really hard time and the thought of going home came to my mind. many times i saved many you what they've done. i thought about how would i pay back the huge loan that i had taken off and on the, all these thoughts prevented me from returning something on the because the agent said $1600000.00, rubies would be deducted right away from anyone who return a lot of the up regarding an out of office me the in the home, the one. so what's the way to stop this is a, a crack down on the human traffickers. i mean, this could be one of the strategies, but i don't think there's a solution unless countries like us gone this done like buckets on an indian states like been job brew white economic opportunities the to their people provide job

opportunities with the people. i don't think this crisis wouldn't and you can put all the human smugglers him and drop it goes into jail. but the demand is such high that there will be more people in the business and who we've tried to capitalize on people's expeditions, people's dreams to have a better life. so that i don't see any easy solution because of this crisis is javan. thank you so much for joining us. of the that's it for the program. thanks for watching and good by the have to say to us the

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