Dear Australia: the surgeon who defied Saddam's death threat – video

Ordered to amputate the limbs of deserters from the Iraqi army or be shot, Dr Munjed Al Muderis hid and fled. In the latest film in the Guardian’s series on refugees in Australia, he tells his astonishing story: how he went on to Christmas Island, spent 10 months in a detention centre and now carries out pioneering reconstructive surgery in Sydney, inspired by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator. ‘I was born very comfortably, I had a silver spoon in my mouth … I never expected that I would end up in a boat coming to Australia’

• Watch more from the Guardian’s Dear Australia video series