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"But you know it's not anxious actually it's kind of mixed feelings. I don't know if I should be happy or should be sad or should be anxious. We are kind of confused. Even me, I haven't had any interview for the United States. I would love to go United States but I don't know when they are going to interview me and I'm a bit worried that they will leave me behind."
Back in the detention centre, the Rohingyan refugee Imran Mohammad says 10 Rohingyans have been accepted by the US.
After four years of detention, Mr Mohammad says he's never seen such happiness in their faces, a feeling he hopes to experience soon.
"I want to go to America because it is the only option for me to get out of this torturous environment. It will allow me to taste my freedom which I have nerve experienced in my life. It will be the biggest day of my life knowing that I am a recognised citizen of a safe country. I don't have to introduce myself as a stateless person anymore. I can be the voice of voiceless people."
With the Manus Island detention centre due to be closed by the end of October, the fate of about 700 men still detained there remains uncertain.
Iranian detainee Amir Taghinia says Australian officials are finding new and devious ways to coerce the men into leaving.
"Cutting water and power. Cutting cleaning services and sanitation, which is already causing many people to fall sick. Now they are cutting smokes. The majority of the guys, they are relying on smoking to buy things, they are using smokes as a currency and the department (of immigration and border protection) knows this very well. And now they are not providing drinking water on time. Sometimes the whole area is running out of drinking water."
After 51 days of protest in the detention centre, the Kurdish journalist and detainee Behrouz Boochani says the detainees won't accept resettlement in PNG.
"We are happy about these guys that they will leave Manus, finally they will get freedom. But on the other side we are worried. Still the Australian government is pushing us to send us to East Lorengau camp. We will resist because they are trying to push us to live in PNG. So we will refuse and we will resist and we don't want to live in this country anymore."
Behrouz Boochani says the peaceful protests will continue even as Australia begins to free its political hostages.
