Shocking, mass graves found in Perlis!

Despite the Home Ministry’s earlier denial that there were no ‘death camps’ for trafficking victims on the Malaysian side of the border, police have discovered about 30 mass graves containing 100 corpses in Padang Besar, Perlis.

Police had discovered the death camps and grave sites last week in Wang Kelian and other villages along the Thai-Malaysian border, which are believed to be linked to the mass grave with 26 bodies found in Songkhla, Thailand.

Home minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said that the death camps may have been there for a number of years.

“The camps have been here for a while. Maybe even five years. I am shocked!

“The Inspector-General of Police and the deputy IGP are there now for the identification and verification process.

“One grave maybe has three, four bodies. But we don’t know how many there are. We are probably going to find more bodies,” Zahid told The Star.

After the discovery of the graves in Thailand at the beginning of the month, Home Ministry secretary-general Datuk Alwi Ibrahim had said that no such camps existed in Malaysia, despite claims to the contrary by human rights organisations Tenaganita and Human Rights Watch.

The home minister also said that he had no doubt Malaysians were involved.

“Malaysia as a government is not involved. But Malaysians, yes! I recognise that as a fact.

“But you know, in Mexico and the United States, they have more intelligence and state-of-the-art border security but there is still human trafficking happening there,” he said.