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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Ben Doherty

‘Indefinite torture’: Australian children held in Syrian camp feel abandoned as other countries repatriate citizens

A mother and her son in the Roj camp in Syria in 2022
A mother and her son in the Roj camp in Syria in 2022, where conditions are ‘a living hell’, according to an Australian mother held in the camp near the Turkish border. Photograph: MAXPPP/Alamy

Australian children held in a Syrian detention camp for more than five years – some born in the camp and having never left it – are despairing as they watch hundreds of other foreign children leave for home.

“They can’t understand why they don’t have a chance to be saved like the other Australians and given a shot at a normal life,” one mother in the camp told Guardian Australia.

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