“A forensic team also confirmed on March 6, 2015 that the suspected grave site was indeed a mass grave but Malaysian authorities did not order the exhumation of the bodies until May 2015. “The four-month delay in investigating the grave site delayed the exhumation of remains from the site which, in turn, hampered forensic specialists from identifying the causes of their death. The report follows the convening by the government of a Royal Commission of Inquiry to investigate human trafficking and mass graves discovered in Wang Kelian, believed to contain the bodies of trafficked Rohingya and Bangladeshis. The report also documents how perpetrators murdered and buried bodies in mass graves and, in some cases, forced captives to bury the bodies. “People died every day,” it quoted Noor Begum, 20, who survived a human trafficking camp on the border, as saying.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 29, 2019 15:33 UTC