Discovery of graves nothing new, says ex-US Senate staffer

PETALING JAYA: The recent reports of graves along the Malaysia-Thailand border are “sadly nothing new”, according to a former US Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffer who was involved with the problem.

In an e-mail interview with The Star, he recalled travelling to that border alone six years ago as part of a year-long investigation into allegations of trafficking and extortion of Myanmar migrants and refugees. That investigation concluded that a few thousand Myanmar migrants had been victims of extortion and trafficking in the border region.