MASS GRAVES IN THAI JUNGLES, Second death camp discovered.

Thai investigators have discovered five graves in a second jungle camp in southern Thailand, believed to contain the remains of migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar, according to media reports.The camp was uncovered just a kilometre from a similar encampment on a steep hillside near the Malaysian border, where forensic teams found 26 bodies over the weekend — all but one buried in shallow graves, Agence- France Presse reported on Tuesday.
‘We found the second camp yesterday evening,’ police spokesperson Prawut Thavornsiri was quoted to have told reporters.
He said it was near the first camp 25 kilometres west of Padang Besar in Songkhla province.
‘We also found five graves but cannot yet confirm whether any bodies are in them. Authorities will look into this,’ the police officer added.
Rights groups have long accused the Thai authorities of turning a blind eye to — and even being complicit in — human trafficking, according to the report.
At least 32 ‘mass graves’ of illegal migrants, most of them reportedly from Bangladesh and Myanmar, were discovered on Friday in remote mountainous areas in Thailand’s Songkhla province bordering Malaysia. The lone survivor of the death camp rescued alive and now under treatment in Thailand is reportedly a Bangladeshi.
A trans-national racket of human traffickers has been engaged in luring an increasing number of fortune-seekers from Bangladesh into their trap and taking them to Thailand by boat for ultimate destinations in Malaysia and beyond dodging border guards.
Local agents of the racket target poor villagers from different districts here offering them good jobs abroad at ‘minimum costs’ and arrange the dangerous sea-crossing, according to officials.
About 87,000 people migrated to Malaysia by sea in July 2014, which was 61 per cent higher than that of the year before, according to a report of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Many Bangladeshis are shipped along with Rohingyas by traffickers promising good jobs in Malaysia. Some of them said they were simply abducted for ransoms.
The government has claimed that border security along the land and sea had been tightened to check irregular migrations that often lead fortune seekers to the death traps in Thai jungles.
Cox’s Bazar sector commander of the Border Guard Bangladesh, Colonel Khalequzzaman said that the BGB personnel had been alerted and they were trying to mobilise locals to fight human trafficking.
Bangladesh Coast Guard’s Chittagong zone chief Captain Shahidul Islam said that they had intensified patrol at strategic and vulnerable points.
He said high-speed boats were also deployed to Sangu and Kutubdia points to check suspicious movement on the waterway.

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