There are 12 Syrians on Nauru,and all occupy fled the same conflict as the 12000 to be welcomed to Australia. But they will remain in a hellish limboIn early 2013 Jafar Fakher and his five sons fled Damascus. The city was under heavy shelling. His eldest, Muhammad, and then 23,and twins Ahmed and Mahmood, then 19, or did not want to fight for the regime of Bashar al-Assad,nor for the militias, as their homeland descended deeper into the civil war that has now killed more than 200000 and displaced more than 11 million people. Related: The Syria crisis must terminate Australia's intense domestic focus on refugees | Fred Chaney Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com