Detours 4: Imran is stateless
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Imran fled violence in Myanmar – now he is in detention on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, with no papers and no idea what will happen to him. Hosted by Academy Award-winning documentary film-maker Asif Kapadia (Amy, Senna, Diego Maradona), this is the fourth episode in a five-part series from BBC World Service in collaboration with Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute. Detours takes us off the main roads of our lives, following people who didn’t end up where they expected.
Producer: Elyse Blennerhassett and Michael Green
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Asiv Kupardia, with the fourth episode of Detors from the BBC World Service in collaboration with Sundance Institute. |
| 0:10.0 | We're in a detention center on Manas Island in northern Papua New Guinea. |
| 0:15.0 | Imran fled his village home in Myanmar in the middle of the night after violent attacks by |
| 0:21.4 | Buddhist there. He has no papers and no idea of what's |
| 0:25.1 | going to happen to him. Has Imran Mohammed and Elise Blenihasset with |
| 0:30.5 | Imran is stateless. This place is so strange. |
| 0:36.0 | Nobody can explain how we feel. |
| 0:39.0 | It's really difficult for someone to explain this place, express this place. |
| 0:44.0 | You can explain things about this place years and years and it will never end. |
| 0:49.0 | This strange place is called Manus Island. |
| 0:52.0 | It's a tropical island in the remote northern province of Papua New Guinea. |
| 0:56.0 | It's in the Pacific Ocean, just two degrees south of the equator. |
| 1:00.0 | My name is Imnan Muhammad. I came fromana. I was 19 when I arrived on my house island. Now I am 22. |
| 1:08.0 | On Manus, Imrin is an Imrin. He's EMP 65, his boat number. |
| 1:14.0 | He's living inside an immigration detention center, which is located on a naval base. |
| 1:19.0 | I am a stateless person. |
| 1:21.0 | It means I don't belong anywhere in the world because the world needs paper. |
| 1:27.0 | They don't care about me as a human. They want me to show them papers which I don't have. |
| 1:33.2 | Surrounded by fences and guards, |
| 1:35.2 | Eimran sleeps in a stuffy converted shipping container |
| 1:38.1 | that he shares with three roommates. |
| 1:40.0 | He's here indefinitely with a thousand other men, |
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