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“After two months, the people who couldn’t give money—the people who were still
there started dying,” said “Abdul,” a 17-year-old Rohingya survivor of the humantrafficking camps.
“People died every day,” said “Noor Begum,” a 20-year-old Rohingya woman who fled
Sittwe in Rakhine State, Myanmar in September 2013. “Some days more, some days less,
but people died every day.”
Traffickers also systematically sold untold numbers of women and girls into forced
marriages and situations of domestic servitude in Malaysia.
Chapter III of this report is based on Malaysian officials’ testimonies about the discovery of
the mass graves and the human-trafficking camp at Wang Kelian. It finds that Malaysian
authorities discovered a suspected human-trafficking campsite in Wang Kelian on January
19, 2015, which included “cages” constructed with wood and plastic tarpaulin surrounded
by barbed wire and outfitted with lookout posts and canopy walkways. Officials testified
in statements to the Commission that they also discovered a mass gravesite near the jaillike compound in the camp on January 20, 2015.