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Malaysian Police Find 139 Migrant Graves

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thinkstock 5.25.15 malaysiawaterfall?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1432568924071fendytsb/iStock/Thinkstock(KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia) — Malaysian authorities have discovered numerous graves in a series of abandoned camps used by human traffickers on the border with Thailand.

The camps are where Muslims fleeing Myanmar were believed to have been held.

Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said on Monday an initial sweep of the hilly, jungle area found at least 28 camps along a 30-mile stretch of the border.

“The operations which we have been conducting from the 11th of May, we have discovered 139 which we believe to be graves,” Bakar said. “We don’t know what are underneath. The first team has gone in, our forensic and medical team, to exhume whatever remains there and besides that we also discovered one highly decomposed body.”

The task of searching through the area by hand will take time, according to Bakar.

“So to bring out the remains is another problem, another big issue for us. So we are making all the arrangements now on how to bring out all the remains respectfully,” he said.

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