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

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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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