At least two dozen human skeletons – all believed to be human trafficking victims – have been found in Bukit Wang Burma area in Perlis state of Malaysia near Thai border, police said on Sunday. The heavily forested Thai-Malaysia border has been a transit point for smugglers bringing people to South-east Asia by boat from Myanmar (Burma) and Bangladesh. The newly-discovered graves in the northern state of Perlis is close to where authorities in May had found hundreds of bodies in illegal detention camps. An Al Jazeera report says police have uncovered 24 bodies in Bukit Wang Burma. The migrants are often held for ransom in squalid detention camps and according to some accounts face torture and starvation. However, it was not immediately clear if the bodies discovered were those of Rohingya, a minority ethnic group in Myanmar, whose members have fled widespread persecution in that country.
A crackdown by Thai authorities in May drove traffickers to abandon thousands of migrants on rickety, overcrowded boats in South-east Asian waters, triggering a regional humanitarian crisis that saw them land in Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia after being rescued by fishermen.
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