Bangkok – Six years ago, several days after taking his high school exams, Ibrahim and his family fled Syria to Lebanon where they boarded a flight to Bangkok.

Arriving in the Thai capital on tourist visas, they experienced freedom away from the horrors of war in Syria. 

But since their visas expired, they have been living as undocumented migrants.

“We thought of Thailand as a transit point,” Ibrahim told Al Jazeera, “and that we would stay one or two years. Yet after six years, our lives are stuck in limbo.”

In Thailand, Ibrahim’s family applied for resettlement in the US only to wait for two years with no progress.

They then requested resettlement in Canada, restarting the entire process.

In Bangkok, it takes an average of three to four years to complete the resettlement process, leaving many refugees vulnerable and frustrated. 

“We’d love to live here, it’s like the Middle East. People are friendly and will talk to you, unlike people in Europe who won’t say hello,” said Ibrahim. “We no longer dream of peace, only of a passport.”

Thailand is not a signatory to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention and the Thai Immigration Act of 1979 views anyone overstaying their visa as an illegal immigrant, including asylum seekers and refugees.

The UNHCR told Al Jazeera that Thailand is home to 103,000 refugees with an estimated 6,000 urban refugees from countries including Pakistan, Somalia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq, and Syria.

Thailand was among the last countries to maintain a consulate in Damascus, making it an obtainable visa at a time when doors were shutting to those fleeing Syria.

Mirvat came to Thailand in 2012 soon after graduating from Damascus University. 

Six years later, she remains in Bangkok where she has had four children but has not been able to pursue her career. 

“The most difficult thing is that our kids can’t attend school and have nothing to do,” she told Al Jazeera. 

The greatest fear facing Bangkok’s urban refugees is arrest and as a result, many stay inside their homes for long stretches of time.

“I can no longer go to the market and am scared to go to the hospital. We feel scared by everything,” said Mivrat.

Refugees’ fears have recently been heightened by a major police operation that began in October with the appointment of Surachet Hakparn, the new immigration bureau commissioner of the Royal Thai Police. 

“Operation X-Ray Outlaw Foreigner” aims to round up and detain undocumented migrants, with asylum seekers and refugees caught up in the clampdown.

Police raids have led to hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers being held at immigration detention centres.

Last month, the immigration bureau also revoked bail for undocumented migrants who could have previously been released on 50,000 baht ($1,500).

An estimated 200 refugees from Syria were among those summoned back into detention.

The recurrent myth that refugees are a security threat and a drain on society is simply not true. Palestinians and Syrians are incredibly productive and resourceful.

Evan Jones, Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network

Refugees previously granted bail are now subject to increased harassment and arrest, said migrants and rights groups.

“The immigration detention centre is not designed for long-term stay, but hundreds of detainees stay for more than one year,” Puttanee Kangkun of Fortify Rights told Al Jazeera.

Most are overcrowded with more than 300 detainees held in a cell designed for 70 inmates. 

In violation of children’s rights under international law, children are separated from parents and siblings while unaccompanied boys under the age of 12 are held alongside adult men.

Officially, Thai authorities claim that some refugees have fake UNHCR cards and that the operation will check their documents, and re-release genuine asylum seekers on bail.

However, local refugee rights groups told Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity that they were sceptical, noting that the Thai government works closely with UNHCR and can easily check its database. 

“Beside the UNHCR card, which has almost no meaning under domestic legal provisions, [refugees] have no other legal protection,” said Puttanee Kangkun.

‘We do not ask for money, only to be resettled’

The hostile environment has made a bad situation worse for refugees. Over the past year, Thai immigration police have targeted African immigrants in Bangkok in what has been criticised as racial profiling. 

Compared to Somali, Nigerian and other African nationalities, Arabs have had moments where they were able to evade authorities more easily and enjoy some degree of greater freedom.

Ibrahim and his mother used to supplement their remittances by selling Arab street food including shawarma, hummus, and bread at community events and near local mosques. But the recent clampdown on immigration has put a stop to this.

Basil, a 20-year old Palestinian refugee from Syria, explained: “For a long time, I could go out, eat, party and have a life here. But that has all changed now.”

“Soi Arab”, the Middle Eastern quarter in the heart of Bangkok’s tourist district of Nana, is home to restaurants where young Syrian and Palestinian refugees work without documentation. 

“I was paid 250 baht ($7.50) a day for a 12-hour shift washing dishes and the owner gave leftover food for me and my family,” said Basil. 

Yet recently, fearing police raids, owners are asking refugee workers to stay home. 

“Nobody is working now,” said Basil.

Despite the recent immigration raids, refugees Al Jazeera spoke to were not critical of the Thai government. 

“We feel abandoned by the United Nations,” said Mivrat. “We do not ask for money, only to be resettled.”

Sources told Al Jazeera that around 20 percent of the refugees from Syria in Thailand have been resettled, which is high compared to the less than 1 percent global average for third country resettlement. 

The majority were Syrian passport holders, with only around 50 individuals left in Thailand.

Those stuck in Bangkok are primarily Palestinian refugees whose options are more limited. 

No Palestinian refugees have been resettled in 2018, while resettlement to the US has ground to a halt since the election of President Trump. 

“For many Syrian and Palestinian refugees, the sad reality is that they may never be considered for resettlement in a third country,” Evan Jones of the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network told Al Jazeera.

“With global resettlement numbers dropping, these individuals may be stuck on the fringes of Thai society for years or even decades ahead, unable to access some of their most basic human rights.”

If given a choice, many Palestinian refugees from Syria would settle in Thailand. The majority interviewed for this story have university degrees and had established careers before fleeing the war.

But within some sections of Thai society, Arab refugees are perceived as posing a security threat.

“The Thai government should accept the reality that not every refugee could resettle in third countries, so the concept of local integration needs to be taken into consideration in balance with national security concerns for a sustainable solution,” said Puttanee Kangkun of Fortify Rights.

Jones added: “The recurrent myth that refugees are a security threat and a drain on society is simply not true. Palestinians and Syrians are incredibly productive and resourceful and bring a range of skills and knowledge that could help benefit Thai society.”

Even if the Syrian war ends, Palestinian refugees who travelled to Thailand on now-expired emergency documents have lost the right to return to Palestine. Renewing their travel documents has also become much more difficult since the Syrian consulate in Bangkok closed in 2017. 

Refugees that Al Jazeera spoke with estimate that there are 400 Palestinian refugees from Syria remaining in Bangkok, with another 201 from Iraq and 15 from Gaza. 

For some of them, resettlement will be to a fourth rather than a third country. 

Asma was born in Haifa in 1940 and as a young girl fled Palestine for Iraq. She was displaced again by Iraq’s descent into violence after 2003, living for three years in a refugee camp in Cyprus before arriving in Thailand. 

“I asked the UN to send me home to Haifa,” she said. “I just want to be in my country.”

Lorde‘s been dead silent on social media for the past several months, but on Monday (November 12), she returned to Instagram to call out Kanye West and Kid Cudi for allegedly ripping her off.

Under their collaborative name Kids See Ghost, ‘Ye and Cudi closed out Camp Flog Gnaw in L.A. on Sunday night by performing inside a giant transparent box hanging above the stage. In a series of Instagram Stories, Lorde pointed out that the futuristic, floating stage is remarkably similar to the one she used at Coachella in 2017 and on her recent Melodrama Tour.

“I’m proud of the work I do and it’s flattering when other artists feel inspired by it, to the extent that they choose to try it on themselves,” she wrote, alongside photos from her shows and from KSG’s. “But don’t steal — not from women or anyone else — not in 2018 or ever.”

It’s a bold statement for Lorde to make, but in her defense, the two set pieces are uncannily similar. It is, however, also reminiscent of the floating stage Kanye used during his 2016 The Life of Pablo tour. Some fans have also pointed out that Lorde and West share the same stage designer, Es Devlin. The British artist worked with Lorde on her Coachella design, though it’s unclear if she also created West and Cudi’s set from this past weekend.

Neither Kanye nor Cudi have responded to the criticism, and it’s safe to assume Lorde probably won’t be gracing our ears with another majestic ‘Ye cover anytime soon.

Wayne Rooney says it is a “huge honour” to be granted a farewell appearance for England, and that it will be his chance “to say thank you to the fans”.

The 33-year-old DC United forward, who is England’s record goalscorer, will play some part in the game against the United States at Wembley on Thursday.

“I don’t know how much I’m going to play,” he told his club’s website.

“I’ll speak to [manager] Gareth Southgate and whatever he wants me to play I’m happy to. It’s Gareth’s call.”

Thursday’s game, now called ‘The Wayne Rooney Foundation international’, will honour the striker and his charity.

He will come on as a second-half substitute, and will not captain the side or wear the number 10 shirt.

Rooney has scored 53 goals in 119 England appearances and last played for his country against Scotland in November 2016.

“It’s a huge honour for the Football Association to grant me this game,” he said. “It’s an important game because there will be money raised for children’s charities.

“To play and be involved in the squad, see some old team-mates and Gareth Southgate, and some of the coaching staff, will be a great moment.

“To pull on the England jersey again in front of the fans will be a way of me to say thank you for the support they’ve shown me over my time playing for England.”

Crisis can bring people together in unprecedented ways. That’s the theme of Rising, a new short film directed by Game of Thrones’ David Nutter and written by Lena Waithe, creator of The Chi. 

The film, which is the latest installment of the popular Ad Council “Love Has No Labels” PSA campaign, imagines how a massive storm and flood affects a group of neighbors who at first glance have little in common. 

A white man stares menacingly at his neighbor, an American teen from an Indian Muslim family. Two women, who are a couple, run down the block and take note of the scene. Other residents, who are people of color, watch the white neighbor’s intimidation with disapproval. Then disaster strikes and everyone becomes essential to the block’s collective survival. The film is designed to make viewers remember how vital people are to each other — even when political and cultural polarization threatens to tear America apart. 

Nutter, who directed Game of Thrones‘ “Red Wedding” episode, said Rising was an opportunity to remind Americans that they share common bonds — and that they shouldn’t wait for catastrophe to unite them. Nutter hopes people who watch the film will take stock of how fearful they might be of strangers and look for ways to extend acts of kindness and consideration to others. 

“There’s not one of us that doesn’t need a helping hand,” Nutter said. 

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt on Tuesday said prospects for talks to end Yemen’s devastating war were “more real” after Saudi Arabia confirmed to him its willingness to evacuate 50 wounded Houthi fighters as a confidence-building measure.

The evacuation of Houthi fighters, which Hunt said would have conditions about who travels with them, was a Houthi condition for peace talks that collapsed in September after the armed group’s delegation failed to show up.

“If this unblocks that, then that makes the prospect of those peace talks happening more real and that will be very important,” Hunt said.

“It’s about confidence-building measures on both sides, but certainly [from] the people I’ve spoken to today, there is a real willingness to engage in those.”

The Western-backed Saudi-Emirati-led coalition in Yemen resumed air strikes on the main port city of Hodeidah after a lull on Monday as Western allies pressed Riyadh to end a war that has pushed the impoverished country to the verge of starvation.

“Even though there’s been a temporary lull in the fighting … it is a desperate humanitarian situation and so I impressed on everyone the urgency of the situation we’re facing,” Hunt said.

Britain has pushed for new action at the United Nations Security Council to try to end hostilities in Yemen and find a political solution to the three-year war.

Khashoggi killing

Following meetings in Riyadh with the Saudi king and crown prince – the main proponent of Saudi military intervention in Yemen – the UK minister also said he anticipated “rapid progress” in bringing to justice those responsible for last month’s murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

“I was led to believe that certainly the legal processes are going to be starting very soon indeed and we should hear something about that quite shortly,” Hunt told Reuters news agency.

Hunt’s trip, which included a meeting in the United Arab Emirates with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, comes as Riyadh, already under scrutiny for civilian deaths in Yemen air strikes, is facing global criticism and potential sanctions over Khashoggi’s killing inside its Istanbul consulate on October 2.

Britain is a major arms supplier to Saudi Arabia and opposition politicians and human rights groups have called on the government to cease such sales because of the high civilian death toll in air raids by the coalition in Yemen.

The government has said the arms sales earn Britain billions of pounds and guarantee jobs in the industry, and its response to the Khashoggi killing must bear this in mind.

‘Rapid progress’

“I talked very frankly about our concerns about what happened and how important it is for Saudi’s strategic partners to know that this cannot and will not happen again,” said Hunt.

“Due process is in train at the moment in Saudi Arabia, and I was led to believe there will be rapid progress in making sure that people are brought to justice.”

Hunt said accountability was needed for both the people who committed the act and those who ordered it.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan says Khashoggi’s murder was ordered at the highest levels of the Saudi government, and some US lawmakers have accused Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country’s de facto leader, of doing so.

Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday reiterated the UK’s calls for a transparent investigation into the killing.

“As we seek to protect and advance our common security, it is vital that we and our partners in the international community demonstrate our common adherence to the rule of law,” May said. “Those responsible must be held to account.”

Stan Lee revolutionized comic books by delicately balancing superhuman powers with humanizing choices and giving young people everywhere heroes they could relate to. Thanks to his illustrious stamp on the industry, his legacy will live on long after his passing. At the same time, it makes his death that much more devastating, particularly for those who were lucky enough to work closely with the Marvel legend.

Soon after the sad news was announced, Chris Evans took to Twitter to celebrate Lee’s contribution to pop culture. “For decades he provided both young and old with adventure, escape, comfort, confidence, inspiration, strength, friendship and joy. He exuded love and kindness and will leave an indelible mark on so, so, so many lives,” he wrote, before signing off with Lee’s signature, “Excelsior!!”

Giving credit where credit was due, Robert Downey Jr. — who helped turn Lee’s comics into an epic film franchise starting with the MCU’s first movie, Iron Man — simply stated, “I owe it all to you,” alongside a photo of them together, and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige wrote, “No one has had more of an impact on my career and everything we do at Marvel Studios than Stan Lee.”

Of course, it’s not just the superhero staples who are mourning this loss. Black Panther stars Letitia Wright and Winston Duke paid tribute to the Marvel boss, as well as Tom Holland. “How many millions of us are indebted to this guy, none more so than me. The father of Marvel has made so many people so incredibly happy. What a life and what a thing to have achieved,” the Spider-Man star wrote on Instagram.

Read more reactions from inside the Marvel community and beyond below.

Debutant Kirstie Gordon took 3-16 as England beat Bangladesh by seven wickets on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method at the Women’s World T20.

After their opening match against Sri Lanka was abandoned without a ball bowled on Saturday, England won the toss and soon had Bangladesh at 3-2.

Left-arm spinner Gordon, one of three debutants, helped limit them to 76-9.

Danni Wyatt fell to the first ball of the reply but England reached a revised target of 64 with 39 balls left.

After the recent torrential rain in St Lucia that prompted the International Cricket Council to consider switching the remaining Group A fixtures, liberal application of sawdust over the ground ensured only a slight delay to the start and no overs lost.

England, who had been reduced to practising underneath the stands during the wet weather, began with seam and showed no ill-effects from their disrupted preparation as Nat Sciver and Anya Shrubsole both struck in the opening three overs.

The boundaries were brought in to the minimum distance of 55 yards because of some remaining wet areas on the outfield and Ayasha Rahman – who after 12 overs had scored all but three of Bangladesh’s total – took full advantage with some lusty blows, striking three sixes in her 39.

Gordon – one of three left-armers in the team, along with fellow debutant Linsey Smith and Sophie Ecclestone – had her caught on the long-on boundary in her third over and struck twice more in her final over.

England overcome anxious start

England’s quest for a rapid victory to boost their run-rate backfired slightly against some wily spin from Bangladesh, who had been bowled out for just 46 by the West Indies in their first match of the tournament.

Wyatt was deceived and trapped lbw on the back pad, using England’s review in vain, while Tammy Beaumont skewed somewhat recklessly to backward point in the third over.

Amy Jones narrowly survived a run out, and a mistimed top edge when she was on 14 was dropped by wicketkeeper Shamima Sultana, who fell to the turf and had to leave the field through injury.

Sciver (23) began to display her innovative range of powerful strokes to help the tourists to 37-2 at the end of the six powerplay overs, and although she was lured out of her ground and easily stumped, England were 23 runs ahead on DLS when some heavy drizzle drifted in.

After four overs were lost, the DLS calculations left England with only nine more runs to score from seven overs, and it took them just three balls.

The victory took England above West Indies, who play their second match on Wednesday, but Heather Knight’s side will hope the rain stays away for their next Group A fixture against South Africa on Friday.

‘I didn’t know I was definitely going to play’

England spinner Kirstie Gordon: “It’s been a bit difficult watching the rain all day against Sri Lanka, but we were optimistic this morning that we’d get a game in. I’ve been working hard on getting a good start which calms your nerves.

“I didn’t know I was definitely going to play today as I was told I’d play if it was a full 20 overs, but if it was a reduced game, the team might change.”

England captain Heather Knight: “Conditions were tricky with the amount of rain we’ve had, but we were just delighted to get out there and to get a game in.

“We wanted to win the game as quickly as we could, but in T20 you’re always likely to lose wickets early on.”

Former England captain Charlotte Edwards on BBC Test Match Special: “We have to be realistic – some of the batters for Bangladesh aren’t going to be like Deandra Dottin and Lizelle Lee. England are going to face some tougher tests.”

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“Out of sight, out of mind” doesn’t work when cleaning out the darkest corners of social media platforms. 

That’s what the documentary The Cleaners, which airs Monday night on PBS, reveals about content moderators in the Philippines who are relentlessly bombarded with violent, graphic, and disturbing images and videos. Ahead of the TV release at a San Francisco screening, the filmmakers Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck praised the subjects in the documentary for being “brave enough to talk to us.”

Manila has become a de facto headquarters for content moderation for some of the biggest social media and content services like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Google, Twitter, and others. But outsourcing the harmful work doesn’t eliminate the problem.

The Cleaners’ filmmakers, a German duo, spent time getting to know five former moderators in the Filipino capital city earning $1 to $3 per hour for third-party content review companies. The moderators anonymously shared their experiences working for companies filtering out inappropriate content and the roles they play in deciding what’s propaganda, art, or news. 

The film takes on the issues the moderators face from viewing thousands of disgusting posts in a shift and also examines the censorship problems that the platforms straddle with their policies about removing certain images. Dangerous fake news has spread on platforms like Facebook in Myanmar, where the Rohingya ethnic minority are persecuted. In the film, a woman shares the horrors she’s endured as a Rohingya person and how Facebook helped make her country so unsafe that she fled.  

This isn’t a new occurrence by any means, but now lawsuits are rolling in on a regular basis. Just a few months ago, a former Facebook moderator sued, accusing the platform of psychological harm. Former Microsoft employees sued for similar reasons after the alleged trauma from reviewing child porn. Yet content moderation is still left to human workers. The short 2017 doc The Moderators from India offered a glimpse at how unprepared these workers are for the type of work they’re subjected to. The Cleaners features interviews with people who knew a fellow worker who killed himself. He had specialized in self-harm videos.

The solution feels like it should be robot moderators, but as the film explores, AI doesn’t yet grasp context and gray areas. The struggle between free speech and censorship keeps humans necessary in the undesirable role. The iconic photo of a girl running naked during the Vietnam War technically falls within nudity guidelines. “Delete!” says a moderator in the film when shown the photo.

At the Cinematografo Film Festival screening in San Francisco last week, the filmmakers said humans are better at analyzing a picture and piecing together what it really means. But it comes at a cost. The pair called the digital cleaning job “a form of mental abuse.” One moderator was an expert at beheading videos and had seen hundreds of them. Another spoke about how viewing child porn disturbed her forever.

The secretive nature of the work compounds the psychological problems. According to the film, workers are strongly pressured to keep their job title off LinkedIn profiles and not share job details with family members. Even identifying which company’s content they are viewing is supposed to be discussed with code names. 

As the people behind the moderation get more attention, the companies have to share more information. Facebook said in July it was growing its safety team to 20,000 workers by the end of this year, which includes 7,500 content reviewers. 

“This job is not for everyone,” Facebook wrote in a blog post detailing the hiring and training processes and how the company is “taking care of the reviewers” with mental health resources and pleasant work environments.

The Cleaners airs in the U.S. on PBS Monday at 10 p.m. local time.

Yangon, Myanmar – Abdul fled his burning home last August amid a frenzy of screams, smoke and gunfire.

As soldiers from Myanmar’s army shot people down at his village in northern Rakhine state, he saw his nephew and son-in-law struck by bullets and killed.

Abdul made it across the border with his wife and four children to Bangladesh where, like hundreds of thousands of other Rohingya Muslims, they have lived for more than a year in cramped, desperate conditions.

Life there has been bleak, but they have at least been out of reach of the army accused by UN investigators of waging a genocidal campaign of mass murder, arson and systematic rape against the minority group.

But now Abdul – whose name has been changed to protect his identity – says he has been told he and his family will be sent back across the border to a region where Rohingya continue to face what one investigator recently called an “ongoing genocide”.

Earlier this month, an official came to their hut at the Jamtoli camp in Cox’s Bazar and told them they would be repatriated this week.

“We were in shock, I couldn’t say anything, my mouth just stopped working,” he told Al Jazeera.

Dozens of other families nearby have also been told they are on a list of more than 2,200 people to be sent back starting on Thursday after Bangladesh and Myanmar struck a deal at the end of last month to return some 5,000 people.

More than 730,000 fled to Bangladesh after Myanmar’s military, aided by Buddhist mobs, began attacking villages in August 2017 as part of what it claimed were counter-terrorism operations.

Bangladesh officials say returns will be voluntary, but Rohingya are unconvinced.

‘Nowhere to hide’

Another Rohingya man who is on the list said a volunteer in the camp who works with government officials told him the decision was “final”.

The UN’s refugee agency has said it was not consulted on the plans and would not facilitate any returns this month. But it has agreed to interview Rohingya on the list to determine if they are willing to return.

“If we assess that they’re not going of their own free will that means the government will probably have to take another position,” said Firas al-Khateeb, a spokesperson for the agency.

Regardless of whether the plan goes ahead, talk of repatriations has sparked terror and chaos in a community already suffering extreme psychological trauma. At least 70 families at Jamtoli have reportedly gone into hiding, said Chris Lewa, director of Rohingya advocacy group The Arakan Project.

The threat of forced repatriation is also a likely factor in a recent uptick in people trying to flee Bangladesh by boat in hopes of reaching Malaysia, she told Al Jazeera.

Some Rohingya on the list, including Abdul, say they are prepared to take their own lives in Bangladesh to avoid being sent back.

“We have nowhere to go, nowhere to hide. Our only option is suicide,” Abdul said.  

‘Dangerous and premature’

He has heard people in his camp crying “day and night” since they learned they were to be sent back. One family of orphaned siblings, the oldest of whom is 18, is also on the list, he added.

Another Rohingya refugee told Al Jazeera that in recent days police have been posted at areas of the Jamtoli camp housing people to be sent back. “They haven’t done anything to anyone, but people assume they came to watch over people on the list,” he said anonymously, fearing repercussions.

Nay San Lwin, an activist working with the Free Rohingya Coalition, said he confirmed three cases of men attempting suicide after being told they would be sent back.

“It is likely many more will try to kill themselves on Bangladeshi soil if they are to be forcibly repatriated,” he said. “They will be in the killing fields if they are sent back this month.”

Last week 42 NGOs working in the Bangladesh camps and in Rakhine state issued a statement warning that repatriating refugees now would be “dangerous and premature“.

Rohingya “are terrified about what will happen to them if they are returned… and distressed by the lack of information they have received”, the statement said.  

The UN’s special rapporteur on human rights for Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, has warned returning people this week could violate international laws that forbid forcing refugees back to countries where they risk persecution.

Last month the chair of the UN fact-finding mission on Myanmar, Marzuki Darusman, warned that genocide is still taking place in Rakhine, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who did not flee last year’s violence face severe restrictions on their movement.

‘Trapped’

About 140,000 have been trapped behind barbed wire barricades in squalid camps on the outskirts of Sittwe, Rakhine’s state capital, since being forced from their homes by mobs of hardline Buddhists in 2012.

Hunger and disease are rife in the camps.

And Myanmar’s authorities, fuelled by anti-Muslim nationalists, have severely restricted access to basic services including healthcare and education.

Many Rohingya in Bangladesh say they would like to return to their homes in Myanmar, but they are adamant they will not be safe until their citizenship and other rights are restored, and those responsible for last year’s violence are held to account.

Rohingya community leaders have also called for “international protection” for returnees.

Many of their villages have been burned to the ground, and in some places new structures intended to house members of other ethnicities have been built in their place.

The government says the returnees will be housed in what it calls transit camps for the expected returnees, but it is unclear where the repatriated Rohingya are expected to settle in the longer term.

“All these people are from villages that don’t exist anymore, where are they going to go?” said Lewa.

“To me it seems likely the government is going to make more camps; they’re going to be trapped like the people in Sittwe.”

After kicking off his Astroworld Tour last week, Travis Scott made a pit stop in L.A. to perform “Sicko Mode” on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, of all places. He didn’t bring his onstage ferris wheel for the visit, but what the performance lacked in props, pyrotechnics, and Drake, Trav made up for with a flashing blue light display and plenty of infectious energy.

Travis was introduced by Ellen as “the voice of his generation” (quite the high praise!), and he returned the love by shouting out the host not once, but twice during the song via some clever lyrical changes: “I just landed in Ellen, poppin’ like it’s Jamba Juice.”

Travis has performed on Ellen before, but it was the first time he sat down for an interview with the host, and he definitely made it a memorable one. As photos of him and Stormi filled the screen behind him, the Houston MC talked up life as a new dad to the daughter he shares with Kylie Jenner.

“Stormi is just so animated,” he said. “She’s, like, running around the house right now on this new walker and she’s turning into a full-blown runner.”

The 26-year-old also hilariously described his first delivery room experience, which involved Kris Jenner (or “Mama KJ,” as Trav calls her) helping him handle his fear of placenta and cut the umbilical cord.

“I never thought I could love something so hard,” he said about holding Stormi for the first time. “It’s crazy.”

Check out Travis’s full interview with Ellen — during which he also discusses his love of Broadway musicals — below.