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GIVE TODAY >>30 dead migrants dug up inside Southern Thailand human-trafficking camp
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A gruesome scenario was discovered by authorities after reaching remote woodland that served as a camp for human traffickers. About 30 bodies of migrants, speculated from Bangladesh and Myanmar, were unearthed from the camp turned mass grave site in Songkhla, near the border of Malaysia. According to reports, most of the bodies belong to Rohingya Muslim refugees.
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Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org)
5/4/2015 (1 decade ago)
Published in Asia Pacific
Keywords: Thailand, Malaysia, Migrants, Refugees, Human Trafficking, Human Traffickers' Camp, Dead, Starvation, Diseases, Captured
MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - Migrants died of starvation and/or diseases while being held captive in bamboo-made cages waiting for ransom payments, then to be smuggled off to Malaysia.
Phuketwan, a local website, stated that the trafficked refugees, commonly called the "boat people," were left behind by the traffickers, sick and already disabled, in order to run off to avoid the authorities. According to a rescue worker, they discovered 32 graves and four bodies were sent to the hospital for autopsy.
In the report by a hospital in Padang Besar, it is confirmed that there is one Bangladeshi man, who fortunately survived unlike most of the migrant refugees with him. His conditions were said to be stable as of now.
Most of the bodies they recovered, according to Sathit Thamsuwan, had already decayed, making the survivor a miracle. They found the shelter the survivor escaped from was a makeshift structure with a bedroom and a canteen for the human traffickers, said the country's Deputy Police Chief.
Police speculate the human traffickers' camp may have detained a total of about 300 refugee migrants. According to Thamsuwan, 200 soldiers, policemen and rescue workers made up the team that climbed through the "mountainous jungle terrain," reaching the camp after 50 minutes, according to the Daily Mail.
"This location helps traffickers transport the migrants at anytime and it is difficult for officers to arrest them," said Gen. Aek Angsananont in an interview with the Bangkok Post.
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