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               Malaysia Buries Rohingya Human-trafficking Victims

   by Associated Press

   Malaysian authorities have given a Muslim burial to 21 human
   trafficking victims, believed to be Rohingya Muslim refugees, found in
   shallow graves in jungles bordering Thailand.

   The 21 were among 106 bodies found last month in jungles in northern
   Kedah state, a remote area bordering Thailand that trafficking
   syndicates used as a transit point to hold migrants and refugees. Most
   were believed to be from Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya minority and
   impoverished migrants from Bangladesh.

   Kedah Chief Minister Mukhriz Mahathir says investigations showed the
   victims died of starvation and illness.

   He said Monday the bodies of 19 men were placed in simple wooden
   coffins each and buried together in a huge grave, while the bodies of
   two women were laid to rest in an adjacent grave in a village cemetery.
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