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.
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.
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