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The lawyer said the Cypriot Foreign Ministry expedited the process once Bushr's parents provided proof that he was their child. Bushr's father then travelled to Beirut where he was reunited with the boy at the Cypriot Embassy. He brought him back to the island on Thursday. "All the parents keep saying is `Thank you! Thank you!'" Constantinou said. "As a grandmother of a two-year-old myself, there's nothing I wouldn't do to get that boy back to his parents." She added that the parents have been taken aback by all the media attention they have faced. Activists say some 35,000 people have been killed in Syria since an uprising against President Bashar Assad's government began in March 2011.
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