Kalimpong was to become an important staging post for Tibetans fleeing the Chinese invasion.

Saive fled the German invasion, eventually arriving in London in mid-1941.

He, with another two crew members, were transporting nine refugees, fleeing the Japanese invasion of Java.

Now the Government has decided not to allow the 170,000 Palestinians who fled the Iraqi invasion to return.

Towns and farms throughout the region were now burning, and the remaining frontier forts filled with refugees fleeing the invasion.

Princes and younger noblemen who refused to flee the invasion organised resistances.

Nearby, a group of young men who grew up in Pakistan after their families fled the Soviet invasion of 1979 agreed.