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Assyrians in Sydney Rush to Bring Refugees Relatives From Syria and Iraq
By Jennine Khalik
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Sydney Assyrian Resource Centre director Carmen Lazar, left. 'My concern is to get the right people into the country' (photo: Britta Campion).
Hundreds of frantic people crowded the Assyrian Resource Centre in Sydney's west yesterday morning in the hopes of bringing asylum-seeking relatives to Australia as part of the government's plan to settle 12,000 refugees from Syria and Iraq. Young and old waited anxiously from the early hours, clamouring at the entrance of the centre, desperate to submit letters of acknowledgment from the



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