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Refugees and Indigenous Australians forge common bonds

Welcome to country cultural protocols by Aboriginal elders imbue a sense of safety to refugees. (Mark Brake/AAP PHOTOS)

When refugee Elias Elias found out how Indigenous Australians were victims of genocide two centuries ago he understood the magnitude of the violence, as a survivor of ethnic cleansing.

In August 2014, militants from the terrorist group Islamic State surrounded the Sinjar mountains in northern Iraq for weeks systematically killing and kidnapping about 10,000 Ezidis.

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