Four Thai nationals will face charges in a Malaysian court on Friday (June 23) over the 2015 discovery of mass graves and suspected human trafficking camps at the country's border with Thailand, Malaysia's home affairs minister said.
The dense forests of southern Thailand and northern Malaysia have been a major stop-off point for smugglers bringing people to Southeast Asia by boat – most of them Rohingya Muslims fleeing persecution in Myanmar and squalid refugee camps in Bangladesh.
Four people wanted in connection with the two countries' probe into the camps discovered in 2015 were extradited from Thailand this week, and were expected to be charged on Friday at a sessions court in Malaysia's northern Perlis state, Home Affairs Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said in a statement on Thursday.
The four people were among ten Thai nationals that Malaysia had sought for extradition since 2017 as part of its probe into the border camps, Mr Saifuddin said.
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