WANG KELIAN, May 25 – Malaysian national police chief said Monday that they have authorities that there have an uncovered 139 suspected graves of victims caught up in the human trafficking trade in forests close to the Thai border with shedding more light on a regional trade that preyed on some of Southeast Asia’s most desperate people.
“The authorities are not sure how many bodies are inside the grave but in the same time they have been founded 139 suspected graves at there. In the same time, we have expected all the body to be exhumed on Monday. Police have also founded 28 illegal camps which may have contained up to 300 migrants,” Khalid Abu Bakar told reporters at a press conference.
The Southeast Asia nations are facing an humanitarian crisis which thousands of migrants come from Bangladesh and Myanmar by boats as hoping to settle elsewhere in the region. In the recent week, there have the police in Thailand have reported that they have finding graves and camps from human trafficking on their border side which prompting a crackdown on people smuggling from the authorities.
In the same time, there have an intensified of the crisis at sea such as the boat was carrying the migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh need to choose their own to stay away from the shore which it also depending the plight of the people crammed on board. There also a lot of Rohingya Muslims migrants have been caught up and there are an ethnic minority fleeing persecution in western Myanmar too. Lastly, there are also Bangladesh migrants also seeking more work in the countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia.
