32 graves found at camp for migrants
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MORE than 30 graves believed to be those of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh have been discovered at a site in southern Thailand.
The graves were at an abandoned camp for “boat people” in Songkhla Province’s Sadao district who had apparently been trafficked to Thailand’s border area with Malaysia, a zone notorious for housing remote camps for trafficked migrants.
“There are 32 graves, four bodies have now been exhumed and are on their way ... to hospital for an autopsy,” Sathit Thamsuwan, a rescue worker, told reporters.
“The bodies were all decayed,” he said, adding that one man from Bangladesh had been found alive.
A local hospital confirmed that a Bangladeshi man was being treated there and was in a stable condition.
Tens of thousands of migrants from Myanmar — mainly from the Rohingya Muslim minority — and increasingly from Bangladesh make the dangerous sea crossing to southern Thailand, a trafficking route often on the way south to Malaysia and beyond.
Thousands of Rohingya — described by the UN as one of the world’s most persecuted minorities — have fled deadly communal unrest in western Myanmar since 2012.
Thailand has been criticized in the past for pushing boatloads of Rohingya entering Thai waters back out to sea and for holding migrants in overcrowded facilities.
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