The Bangladesh embassy in Bangkok is in touch with the Thai authorities to verify the nationality of a survivor at a remote jungle where authorities located mass graves. He is said to be a Bangladesh national.
Published : 03 May 2015, 02:52 PM
Thai police on Friday found at least 30 graves believed to be of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh at a suspected abandoned trafficking camp in remote jungle in Thailand's south.
The foreign ministry on Sunday said its Bangkok mission is already in touch with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security of Thailand, and sought details of the survivor.
The embassy has also requested the Thai foreign ministry to arrange urgent access to the survivor for its consular team.
“The Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs has assured all cooperation in this regard”.
Once permission is received, Bangladesh embassy officials would interview the person for nationality verification.
Thai foreign ministry has informed that the survivor is being treated at a local hospital and his condition is stable.
Illegal migrants, many of them Rohingya Muslims from western Myanmar and also from Bangladesh where they took shelter, often make perilous journeys by sea to escape religious and ethnic persecution.
They seek jobs in Malaysia and Thailand, a regional human trafficking hub.
The graves were the first discovery of its kind in Thailand, Reuters earlier reported quoting Thai police.
The discovery highlights the brutal nature of the trafficking trade in which hundreds are believed to have died in camps or at sea.