II. On Land: Abuses at Human-Trafficking Camps and Houses in Thailand and Malaysia 42 It took seven to eight hours to get to Penang [in Malaysia]. We were brought to a house. The only people at the house were 35 people from the camp. The person in charge of the house was Indian Malaysian . . . The dallal called my father and told him that his son had arrived. He said, “Go to the Maybank in Penang, and your son will come after ten minutes.” 107 After spending 18 days in a human-trafficking camp, the traffickers transferred Wai Roshum, 50, to a house in Malaysia. She recalled: A woman and man who stayed at the house gave us food and water. I was in this house for two days when a woman from my village came to visit the house owner and recognized me. She was surprised to see me there and helped find and contact my nephew in Ampang [in Malaysia]. My nephew paid 800 Malaysian Ringgit (US$230) to the house owners so I could join him in Ampang.108 “Raheem,” 27, also described traffickers holding him in a house in Malaysia for approximately one week after spending one-and-a-half months in a human-trafficking camp on the MalaysiaThailand border. He told Fortify Rights: There were two rooms [in the house in Malaysia]. One room was for [the trafficker’s] family, and in another room, they put us together. I was there for one week. Sometimes, they provided food. There were a lot of mosquitos. In the night, they would lock the room. They were scared we would escape from there. Every day, they demanded money. Whenever we were unable to pay money, they beat us. First, they demanded 7,000 Malaysian Ringgit (US$2,000) when I was in the mountain camps. After I arrived in Penang [in Malaysia], they reduced the money to 2,000 Malaysian Ringgit (US$570) . . . I would recognize the house, but I don’t know the name of the village. It is near a main road beside a mountainside. There are a lot of row houses. There was only one window in the front of the home. There were no windows in the room I was in.109 The Commission and Fortify Rights are unaware of any official investigation into these houses in Malaysia. Filmmakers Jason Motlagh and James Hall also documented the use of houses in Thailand as part of the trafficking business, filming a hidden basement in a Thai home used to hold trafficked persons. A local resident interviewed in a film the pair made for Al Jazeera claimed, “Out of 100 people in this village, I’d say 70 are in the trafficking business.”110 KILLINGS AND PREVENTABLE DEATHS The complete scale of death in the human-trafficking camps in Malaysia and Thailand from 2012 to 2015 is unknown. Survivors of human-trafficking camps in Malaysia and Thailand interviewed by Fortify Rights during a three-year period reported witnessing more than 700 deaths in different camps on the Malaysia-Thailand border in 2014 alone. Several survivors testified to the Commission that they witnessed numerous deaths in the camp in Wang Kelian.111 One witness testified to the Commission that he saw an estimated 200 people die in the Wang Kelian camp due to starvation, injuries from beatings, and untreated illness.112 He told the 107 Fortify Rights interview with #81, Penang State, Malaysia, September 15, 2014. 108 Fortify Rights interview with #78, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 2014. 109 Fortify Rights interview with #23, Johor State, Malaysia, August 15, 2014. 110 Motlagh and James Hall, “Outcast: Adrift with Burma’s Rohingya,” Al Jazeera, November 6, 2014, https://www. aljazeera.com/programmes/peopleandpower/2014/11/outcast-adrift-with-burma-rohingya-2014115134923802388. html (accessed March 25, 2019). 111 The Commission interviews with W10 and W12, Alor Setar, Kedah State, November 2016. 112 The Commission interview with W6, Alor Setar, Kedah State, November 2016.