It would be useful for defectors and refugees.

Others write that they feel more empathetic toward defectors.

Others portray how some defectors made their escape under fire from border guards.

They are falling like leaves in autumn, he recently said of the regime s defectors.

The vast majority of defectors from the North are eventually offered South Korean citizenship.

China regards the defectors as illegal migrants rather than refugees and often forcibly repatriates them.

Not surprisingly, defectors nowadays describe an environment of social breakdown, petty crime, and a Darwinian struggle for survival.

Also among the dead it said were 2,202 army defectors and some 5,375 opposition fighters, many of them foreigners.

It's so big and powerful and efficient that it can take resources from the greens, from the defectors, the cheaters.

With the start of the Syrian conflict, FSA was considered the main Syrian military defectors group, and Assad's main rival.

The escape of around 30,000 North Korean defectors to South Korea might not seem like a storyline rife with laughter.

The prizes conferred on opportunistic defectors not only undermine the party system, but weaken the foundations of parliament by making organized opposition impossible.

Indeed, many FARC defectors now prefer to fight for their cause at the ballot box under the new left wing Polo Alternativo Democratico.

The political resurrection of KGB structures under Putin, and their efforts to silence dissent, has once again turned Russia into a country of defectors.

A challenge for many North Korean defectors is to learn all of these borrowed foreign words that have become part of the southern vernacular.

And now let's rerun the simulation putting one of these superorganisms into a population of free riders, of defectors, of cheaters and look what happens.

Turkey, on the other hand, after some initial hesitation, has thrown its weight fully behind Assad s opponents, including by providing refuge to them, as well as to defectors from Syria s army.

Turkey, on the other hand, after some initial hesitation, has thrown its weight fully behind Assad s opponents, including by providing refuge to them, as well as to defectors from Syria s army.

If one side was supported in a civil war, it was because a regime s one sided killing sometimes leads civilians (as in Syria) to take up arms to fight back (and to recruit army defectors).

If one side was supported in a civil war, it was because a regime s one sided killing sometimes leads civilians (as in Syria) to take up arms to fight back (and to recruit army defectors).

Concerns over insufficient protection of North Korean refugees have grown ever stronger as news came out that nine young North Korean defectors have been forced to return to North Korea after being captured in Laos.

Danbi is a 24 year old North Korean refugee, who paints a picture of the totalitarian regime that s quite different from the one we re used to seeing, but an account supported by other defectors and those working with North Koreans.

Doing nothing left Russia s security structures unscathed and able to make a political comeback, which they have now achieved. The political resurrection of KGB structures under Putin, and their efforts to silence dissent, has once again turned Russia into a country of defectors.