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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ben Doherty

‘Indefinite torture’: the desperate wait for Australian mothers in Syria to get their children out

A mother and her child inside the Roj camp in Syria
About 40 Australians – 10 women and 30 children – remain held within the Roj camp in north-east Syria. Photograph: Maya Alleruzzo/AP

Australian mothers trapped with their young families inside one of Syria’s brutal detention camps say they are desperate to get their children out, fearful they will be taken from them, or they will die.

“The kids are shaken each time they see a soldier holding a gun,” one mother in the camp said. “And each night, when the boys hear a car, they can’t sleep, afraid they will be taken away from their mother.”

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