Suffolk has welcomed 125 refugees from Syria since 2016
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They fled the most heartbreaking horrors of war imaginable - from being shot and seeing their homes destroyed, to family members being killed or tortured.
But these refugees said fleeing to Ipswich and Suffolk ensured they could begin a new life - as the county helped them to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives after the trauma of civil war.
Since its outbreak in 2011, the Syrian conflict has killed hundreds of thousands of people and forced more than half the country s population to flee their homes.
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