These grim pictures show the graves of at least 30 people who were left to starve or die of disease in a remote and lonely corner of Thailand by cruel people traffickers.
Thai police today found the remains, believed to belong to migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh, at what authorities say is an abandoned trafficking camp in the jungle in Thailand's south.
Illegal migrants, many of them Rohingya Muslims from western Myanmar and from Bangladesh, brave often perilous journeys by sea to escape religious and ethnic persecution and to seek jobs in Malaysia and Thailand, a regional human trafficking hub.
Four bodies had been exhumed so far, said Police Colonel Anuchon Chamat, deputy commander of Nakorn Si Thammarat Provincial Police.
A total of at least 30 graves were found in a "well set up" smuggling camp.
"There are at least 30 graves that have been place marked. We exhumed four bodies today and will continue to exhume bodies," Anuchon said.
The graves were the first discovery of its kind in Thailand, said Anuchon.
Two other bodies that had not been buried and were left to rot in the open were also found, he said.
One survivor was rescued from the abandoned camp and taken to hospital in nearby Pedang Besar.
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