The roads are bumpy but negotiable, the markets are full of traders, the citizens of the land of liberty are swarming home from every refugee corner and every life of exile as if a silent migratory signal has been set off calling them back to their nests.

BBC: African view: Land of liberty?

Much like the adorable Exile video, where an urchin gives us a lay of the war-torn land, this one gives us the other side of the scuffle.

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Lai Ram's estrangement from his family is the biggest tragedy of his forced exile in an unknown land.

BBC: The Burmese teenagers who fled to India

Later, he may even land a meeting with the President of the U.S. Then comes the hard reality: indefinite exile in a foreign country.

CNN: EXPORTING DISSENT

You are an exile, banished for your crimes to Wraeclast, and given a life sentence in the land of the damned.

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