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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ben Doherty

Australia refuses to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us’

A child hides at the Roj camp in Syria's north-east in October 2023
A child hides at the Roj camp in October 2023. Fewer than 40 Australians – the majority children – remain in two camps that are ‘becoming more militarised, intrusive and securitised’. Photograph: Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images

Australian children held in increasingly “militarised” displacement camps in north-east Syria have been told they will be shot if they try to breach the fence line, as Australia refuses to issue its citizens with passports so they can be repatriated.

The US has offered to bring the Australians out of the camps on the proviso they have been issued with travel documents or passports, a condition to which Australia has not agreed.

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