Member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations

Malaysian police forensic teams, digging with hoes and shovels,  on May 26 began pulling out bodies from shallow graves found in abandoned jungle camps where an inter-governmental body said hundreds of victims of human traffickers may be buried. 

Malaysia's home minister has announced that mass graves have been found in the country's north near detention camps run by human traffickers, a report said May 24.

Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia will continue to push boats holding thousands of migrants back to sea, a senior Thai official said on May 134, despite a U.N. appeal for a rapid rescue operation to avoid a humanitarian crisis.