Malaysia trafficking: Could police have intervened?

Police in Malaysia say they have found 139 graves, and 28 camps, in remote areas near the border with Thailand which they believe were used to hold trafficked migrants.

The police say some of the graves contain more than one body.

Earlier this month the discovery of mass graves in secret migrant camps in Thailand prompted the authorities there to begin an anti-trafficking operation.

Jonathan Head reports.

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