Human Flow Page #2

Inhaler.

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[indistinct chatter]

[exhales]

[crying]

The officials came here

and told them,

"Look there is no way you gonna

get papers to continue."

So, you're going to be deported.

"Either you go voluntarily

or we arrest you."

And yesterday,

it started with...

police coming here

and actively arresting people.

[Ott] They are very afraid

of being brought back.

I mean, there is a reason

Why these people are here.

- [whispers] Sorry.

- [woman gags]

[gags]

It's okay, it's okay. It's okay.

[coughs]

[coughs, vomits]

Okay. A little water.

[woman coughs]

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[chanting in Arabic]

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[bus engine idling]

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- [whistle blowing]

- [cameraman] Come on, man!

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[indistinct conversation]

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[police car siren wails]

[birds chirping]

[fabric rustling]

[speaking in Arabic]

[speaking in Arabic]

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[coughs]

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[man] This is one of them.

[speaking in Arabic]

Hold it. Hold on.

[baby whining]

[giggling]

Hey.

[laughing]

[motorcycle engine revving]

[singing in Arabic]

[wind gusting, rattling]

[squelching]

[grunts]

[groaning]

[speaking in Arabic]

[cheering]

[Chapuisat] Today, we're

here at the Ein al-Hilweh Camp,

which is one of the most

populated areas in the world.

In an area of 1 km,

there is approximately

100,000 different people living,

and as one knows the history

of the Palestinian people,

this camp has been here

for more than 60 years.

Generations of children

have grown up

within the walls of this camp.

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[bus horn honking]

[Yahya] If children grow up

without any hope,

without any prospects

for the future,

without any sense of them

being able to make something

out of their lives, then they

will become very vulnerable

to all sorts of exploitation,

including radicalization.

Young, particularly men

who are...

They're teenagers,

they're on their way

to adulthood,

many of them are traumatized

by unimaginable losses at home.

Uh...

They're angry,

they're frustrated,

they want to make a difference

in their...

in the lives

of their communities.

They have seen

their homes demolished,

they have seen

their families killed. Uh...

They are children who want...

they themselves want to go fight

because they think that this is

the way they can seek revenge

or get revenge for the horrors

that they have lived through.

[beep]

[Joumblatt] Without memory,

you are nothing,

memory is part of your history

and history is part...

Part of your geography.

Where can the Syrians go?

Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Europe.

So now, they are helping us,

they want us

to keep these refugees.

Okay, we will keep them.

They want to give us money

so we have to profit out of this

money, to educate the Syrians,

to make them work so one day

they might come back.

But now they

are pouring money in Jordan,

in Lebanon, in Turkey.

They don't want to hear anymore

about refugees.

That's their new policy now.

It's quite a hypocritical

policy, but...

I was terribly violent

along time ago,

I was a feudal, I was a warlord

along time ago.

Lebanon is small, with...

It's a country

of 18 communities,

Christians and Muslims.

So we have to preserve it,

and not to think about the past.

See the future.

And to forget about old,

about our old hatred.

Because somewhere

in our subconscious,

we hate each other.

We have to, at any price,

compromise.

Dialog is important in life.

Much more important

than anything.

In this new world of total

uncertainty, nobody knows,

I don't think somebody knows

where this world is going on.

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and squeaking]

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[police siren wails]

[man speaking in Arabic

over P.A.]

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[children chattering]

[clamoring]

[speaking in Arabic]

[metal clanking]

[El-Ad] Gaza could be,

could be on Mars.

It's like as distant

as you could be.

An hour's drive from Tel Aviv...

those 1.8 million people, that,

you know, are our neighbors,

living in conditions, you know,

of a third world country

on the way to collapse, right?

Already people there,

for many hours in a day,

don't have electricity, right?

Uh, the quality of the water

is deteriorating.

We are talking about, like,

the most basic

of human needs, right?

This is, like,

almost as basic as it gets.

Is this fair? Is this equal?

Is this just?

Just as a human being,

identify that,

you know, what you are

looking at is injustice.

[boy chanting

in foreign language]

[mule snorting]

[seagulls cawing]

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[panting]

[farting]

[grunting]

[men yelling

in foreign language]

[Middle Eastern music playing]

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[horns honking]

[Ameratunga]

We are helping the returnees

to come back with the cash grant

and with some

supplementary assistance

for the more vulnerable people.

And in addition, we are helping

the government of Afghanistan

to be a refugee hosting country

for the first time.

So, Afghanistan is actually

hosting people

who have fled

for their safety also here.

So, I think the main challenge

will be the security situation,

because it is a country where

there is ongoing conflict.

And that affects the ability

of people to come back

and restart their lives.

[baby fussing]

[Ameratunga] People are

sometimes unable

to go back

to their place of, uh, origin,

because it may be

in war-torn area.

That means they have been

displaced across the border

and now they are coming back

and becoming internally

displaced as well.

So that's the sad part about it.

And so the people

who are returning today...

[stammering] are in

a very difficult situation.

They are probably going to have

a very difficult time

restarting their lives,

but at least they are now

citizens of their own country.

[cow mooing]

[Shuja] So a lot of these people

can't go back to their villages,

particularly the people

coming from Pakistan,

because they have been

displaced for 30 years,

in some cases 40 years.

They no longer have the

connections in their villages.

They can't go back

and claim the land

that their grandfathers tilled.

In some cases, their villages

are too insecure for them

to go back, and so they

end up in urban areas,

displaced and disconnected,

landless and dislocated.

[helicopter whirring]

[indistinct chatter]

[birds cawing]

As we have huge logistics,

we of course have to design,

have to decide where people

can go with their stuff.

We're here now.

And you can see, we have

one, two, three, four hangars.

Three hangars already

have people living in them.

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