Signs of torture at trafficking camps

Malaysia has found 139 graves, and signs of torture, in more than two dozen squalid human trafficking camps suspected to have been used by gangs smuggling migrants across the border with Thailand, the country’s police chief said.

The dense jungles of southern Thailand and northern Malaysia have been a major route for smugglers bringing people to Southeast Asia by boat from Burma — most of them Rohingya Muslims who say they are fleeing persecution — and Bangladesh.

“It’s a very sad scene... To us even one is serious and we have found 139,” Malaysia’s inspector general of police, Khalid Abu Bakar, told media in the northern state of Perlis. “We are working closely with our counterparts in Thailand. We will find the people who did this.”