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Thursday 28 May 2015 - 13:34 Makkah mean time-10-8-1436
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Perlis (IINA) – Malaysian Deputy Home Minister Dr Wan Junaidi Jaafar said the 139 graves of alleged victims of human traffickers and 28 abandoned camps believed to have been used by them in the Perlis jungle are new and not over 10 years old as reported in the media, BERNAMA reported.
Dr Wan, who was accompanied by Deputy Inspector-General of Police Noor Rashid, said the evidence gathered at the site of the graves in Bukit Wang Burma close to the Malaysia-Thailand border substantiated this.
He said the foodstuff recovered at the site was still fresh, and the plastic roof of the camps was also new. Wan also said it was incorrect to refer to the graves as mass graves because each of the three graves unearthed so far contained only one body, wrapped in shroud in accordance with Islamic requirements.
"All the bodies (at the site) will be brought out for pathological tests to determine the cause of death and whether the victims had been tortured,” he added.
The deputy minister said the unearthing of the graves and removal of all the bodies is expected to be completed by June 8.
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