3 more camps found
PUTRAJAYA: Police found three other human trafficking camps after the discovery of the first camp in Wang Kelian, the Royal Commission of Inquiry was told.
The seventh witness in the Wang Kelian RCI, Assistant Superintendent Jamaluddin Shah Mohd Jawan, said the camps were in Genting Perah, the Perlis State Park and Wang Burma.
“Acting on the information obtained from operations conducted by the General Operations Force (GOF) on Jan 19 (2015), police requested assistance from VAT 69 Commando to conduct surveys in the vicinity to determine if there were other human trafficking camps.
“From March 10 to March 15, VAT 69 detained two Thais and three Myanmar nationals.”
He said an operation was conducted in May where police discovered mass graves in Genting Perah and the State Park.
“On Aug 15, we swept the Wang Burma area. We found a second camp on Bukit Wang Burma, about an hour’s walk from the first camp discovered by the GOF in January.
“We found six human skeletons and 20 structures believed to be graves at the site, located 50m from the Malaysian-Thai border.”
He said he believed the second camp at Wang Burma could be the earliest one set up by a human trafficking syndicate.
This was due to the condition of the camps, which looked to be in a more deplorable state than the camps found in Wang Burma, Genting Perah and the State Park.
He said that despite his assumption that the second site in Wang Burma might be the earliest, the condition of the bodies retrieved from the grave were similar to the ones found at the other camps.