Malaysian court charges four Thais with migrant smuggling

One of the defendants is related to the discovery of 139 mass graves with hundreds of migrants in 2015

June 23 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Court of Sessions of Kangar (Malaysia) has accused this Friday four Thai citizens of human trafficking, one of whom is related to the case of the 139 graves with the bodies of hundreds of migrants located by the country’s Police in 2015. .

The defendants, who would have committed a crime against human trafficking and migrant smuggling between 2013 and 2015, face up to 15 years in prison and fines, according to the Malaysian newspaper ‘Harian Metro’.

One of the defendants is among the ten people wanted by the Police for being allegedly related to the discovery in 2015 of 139 graves with hundreds of bodies of immigrants in an abandoned camp near Wang Kelian, in northern Malaysia and just 500 meters from the border with Thailand, where other graves were also found.

North Malaysia is part of the route used by human smugglers to send people from Burma to Southeast Asia. Most of them belong to the Rohingya minority or come from Bangladesh.