Malaysia discovers 139 graves of suspected victims of human trafficking

#Humantraffickers #Malaysia #thailand Malaysian authorities have unearthed 139 suspected graves in a series of abandoned camps and believe that these graves have been used by human traffickers on the border with Thailand. It is doubted that Rohingya Muslims fleeing from Myanmar were held here.
This has been reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 25 May 2015.

The area is a hilly, jungle area located along a 50-Km stretch of the border and, the police have found 28 such camps. In one of the camps there was "a highly decomposed body". This would go for forensic checks as teams have started on the work of exhuming the bodies from the graves.
The police have discovered 139 graves which are mounds of earth, covered by leaves and marked by sticks and appear to have been abandoned quite recently, two to three weeks ago.
These finding are similar to discoveries earlier by the Thailand police who had unearthed dozens of bodies from shallow graves on the Thai side of the border. These throw light on the hidden network of jungle camps run by traffickers. These traffickers hold countless desperate people captive while they try to extort ransoms from their families.
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