21 October 2015•Update: 21 October 2015
By P Prem Kumar
KUALA LUMPUR
Malaysia continues to tackle human trafficking at both ends of the scale, arresting 47 suspected members of a syndicate Wednesday the day after it told Myanmar to resolve its Muslim Rohingya issue -- which human rights groups have claimed is the source of the trafficking problem.
On Wednesday, Malaysian Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi told parliament that those arrested included agents and transporters of the illegal immigrants -- both Malaysians and foreigners.
Among them were four police personnel arrested on suspicion of complicity, added Hamidi, who is also the deputy prime minister.
All 47 were believed to be connected to a group responsible for a mass grave on the Thai border, at which Hamidi said a special team had found 159 grave structures, from which 130 bodies have been exhumed to date.
"From the 130, some 119 bodies have undergone the post-mortem process and have been buried while the remaining 11 bodies are still in hospital waiting for the post-mortem reports," he added.
