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Malaysia reburies human trafficking victims

Xinhua, June 22, 2015 Adjust font size:

Malaysia began the reburial on Monday of human trafficking victims, who are believed to be refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh that died near the Malaysia- Thailand border.

Police said a total of 21 bodies were buried in a cemetery of Malaysia's northern Kedah state on Monday.

The cemetery compound was heavily guarded by the police, state news agency Bernama reported.

The 21 were among 106 bodies that were found in graves near the Malaysia-Thailand border in May. Authorities also discovered camps that used by the traffickers to hold up their victims.

The bodies were buried after the autopsy was completed. Kedah Chief Minister Mukhriz Mahathir was quoted as saying that the remaining bodies would be buried in stages, after their autopsies were done.

A crackdown on human trafficking was launched in Thailand after dozens of bodies of deceased Rohingya migrants from Myanmar have been exhumed from graves found in Thailand's side of the border earlier this year.

Since the crackdown started, boats carrying thousands of migrants seeking to land in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, mostly from Myanmar and Bangladesh, have been stranded at sea.

Indonesia and Malaysia have agreed to take on 7,000 Bangladesh migrants and Myanmar's Rohingya refugees pending their repatriation. Endi