Sunday, May 3, 2015

Dozens of corpses found in bamboo cages in Thai human trafficking camp


#massgrave #thailand #bangladesh #immigrants #rohingya It was a mass grave in southern Thailand from which 26 dead bodies have been recovered – the site is near to a human trafficking camp deep inside the jungle as reported in dailymial.co.uk dated 2 May 2015.
From initial findings, it is believed that these decaying corpses are of illegal migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh. They had been brought in to the country via vast trafficking networks which are 'out of control'. It seems the numbers could be over 30 people and they are apparently buried in shallow graves at the chilling site in Songkhla province, just 300 meters from Malaysia.
How they died is still a mystery but as per the Thai police chief, the victims met a 'violent death'. The Sadao district is where they were kept prisoners and this is a known stop-off for traffickers. The reason is simple – they can remain under cover in the remote woodland before taking their captives across the border and beyond.
The traffickers would keep their victims captives in cages until they received the money for their transport across the border – if the money was not received, the victims would be left to die in the cages. These were illegal immigrants, mostly Rohingya Muslims, and they undertook the dangerous journey by sea to escape religious persecution at home and find jobs in Malaysia and Thailand.

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