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| 139 Grave Sites, 28 Trafficking Camps Found in Malaysia | |
| 2015-05-26 | |
| [AnNahar] A total of 139 grave sites and 28 human-trafficking camps have been found in a remote northern Malaysian border region, the country's top police official told news hounds Monday. National police chief Khalid Abu Bakar revealed the findings at a presser a day after the government announced the discovery of camps and graves, the first such sites found in Malaysia since a regional human-trafficking crisis erupted earlier this month. "(Authorities) found 139 suspected graves. They are not sure how many bodies are inside each grave," Khalid said. He added that the number and size of the 28 camps found suggested that they may have housed a combined hundreds of people. The largest could hold up to 300 people, another had a capacity of 100, while the rest could hold about 20 each, he said. The discovery is the latest evidence of the lethal nature of the region's human-trafficking trade. Police in neighbouring Thailand in early May had found secret human-trafficking camps on their side of the border and dozens of shallow graves. Malaysian officials had subsequently dismissed the suggestion that similar sites existed on Malaysian soil. Khalid said the camps and graves were in jungly, mountainous areas that were difficult to reach. He declined to respond to a later question on how such an extensive system of camps could have existed without detection by authorities and whether the complicity of corrupt officials was suspected.
Khalid said at least one body was "badly decomposed." The authorities were in the painstaking process of exhuming and conducting post-mortems on the remains, he added. Thailand launched a crackdown on human-smuggling following the discovery of its mass graves. The move appears to have caused nervous traffickers to abandon their human cargo at sea, leaving boats filled with hundreds of starving migrants seeking to land in Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. After initially turning them away, Malaysia and Indonesia last week bowed to international pressure, saying they would admit boat people pending their repatriation or resettlement elsewhere. Prime Minister Najib Razak said he was "deeply concerned" by the discovery of the graves. "I am deeply concerned with graves found on Malaysian soil, purportedly connected to people-smuggling," he said on his Facebook and Twitter accounts. "We will find those responsible." | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
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| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2015-05-26 20:50 |
| #8 Amen. I've seen Blazing Saddles |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-05-26 20:42 |
| #7 To add: there was some migration of blacks to the North after the Civil War, but it really began about the time of the industrialization of the Midwest, particularly the auto industry. FWIW, quite a few migrated West as well. Not every cowboy was Gene Autry. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-05-26 20:26 |
| #6 Dunno.Been a long time since US Army leadership was merely given an objective, and how it was done was left up to them. Civilian or Government oversight of Tier 1 and 2 SOF is particularly onerous. I recall limp wristed Assistant Secretaries of Defense and congressional staffers taking great personal pride in crushing the nuts of senior military leaders. The creation of ASDSOLIC at the five sided nut was supposed to offer an info/liaison conduit for these vermin. Not sure how it has progress however. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-05-26 18:12 |
| #5 Dunno. Been a long time since US Army leadership was merely given an objective, and how it was done was left up to them. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-05-26 18:02 |
| #4 Yes, the Holy Sea, then Moscow. Why do you ask ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-05-26 15:14 |
| #3 You mean to the "sea." I highly doubt William Tecumseh and his military solution would have made it to the Vatican. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-05-26 15:11 |
| #2 General Sherman's march to the see resulted in burning of thousands of farms and plantations. This famous government solution resulted in a huge camp following and eventual migration to the North of former slaves. No detailed search required for the simple irony found here. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-05-26 12:35 |
| #1 Slaving. Muslim hobby well before the white Europeans even knew of the Americas. BTW, part of the 'evil' American colonial experience was ending that hobby of the Muslim Moros in southern Philippines a hundred years ago. Like racism, it's only 'evil' when whites do it. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-05-26 11:58 |