The factions are not making war on each other now, but they are terrorizing civilians, driving them from their villages.

Many say they long to go home but fear they will be kidnapped, tortured or killed by the same soldiers who drove them from their villages.

These are often described in terms of'push-pull' factors, the 'push'being those that drive migrants from their villages, while the 'pull'attract them to the city.

It is believed that the tribes were driven from their villages and some were hunted by slave catchers.

The working people were driven from their villages and herded in factory towns.

Gunmen have driven countless people from their villages and seized or burned their homes.

Driven from their ruined villages, they wandered through a war zone to resettlement camps and, for the lucky ones, to safety.

Hundreds of families driven into Basilan's cities from their villages now feel secure enough to return home.

The Shasta Costa were "driven from their villages" by miners in the 1850s.

Here in Amritsar, eight Hindu families were staying at a religious guest house after being driven from their villages.