High-tech phone data used to uncover Malaysia-Thai border graves


Thai rescue workers collect the recovered remains of a suspected Rohingya migrant after discovering another grave site at a long-abandoned Muslim cemetery in Sadao district, Songkhla province near the Thai-Malaysian border in southern Thailand, 06 May 2015. Pic EPA.

PETALING JAYA: The mass grave of Rohingya refugees found in Songkhla recently was uncovered through unprecedented cooperation and effective use of high-end technology, said an anti-human trafficking body.

The international group, Freeland Foundation, said close cooperation between the police and NGOs with the use of telephone forensics technology had enabled investigators to detect and catch members of the international human-trafficking syndicate responsible for the burials and kidnappings. 

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