By Coconuts Yangon
June 5, 2017
Malaysian police
rescued 11 Rohingya human trafficking victims in a Kuala Lumpur raid on
Saturday morning. The victims – nine of them children – were being held in a
“confined space” by six other Myanmar nationals. |
| Rohingya children in Malaysia. Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Firdaus Latif |
The six traffickers
are between the ages of 25 and 30. They are believed to be members of a
syndicate that traffics in Rohingyas, the Malaysian National News Agency
reported.
Police also found
five notebooks that contained records on the sale of six other children, each
for between US$280 and $350.
“The suspects
brought the victims from the north of the peninsula and kept them confined at
the premises. (Whenever there was a request for people), the victims would be
sold at an agreed price,” local deputy police chief Supt Habibi Majinji said in
a press conference following the raid.
He added that the
children were mostly sold to begging syndicates.