There have been previous exoduses, especially from Mosul.
Refugees went on exoduses, only to find their way often cut off by flaming roadblocks.
With exoduses all over the world, the angel killers have no other choice but to recruit.
Some Nukak have managed to return home, but most haven't and the exoduses continue.
The exoduses have also had a surprisingly strong impact on the Canadian psyche.
"To see how it's blossomed to this is like 'Wow!' " The story of Southside begins with two epic exoduses.
Thailand has for decades borne the brunt of refugee exoduses from South-East Asian conflicts, including wars in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar.
After the 2002 Bali bombing, Indonesian papers reported few exoduses of middle-class Indonesians to Singapore, suggesting that locals thought the nation remained stable.
In the latest of many exoduses along the road in recent days, pickup after pickup, spray-painted with revolutionary graffiti, roared past carrying the wounded and, in some cases, dead fighters.
The militant's assault on the town and its surrounding villages has lasted for weeks, forcing some 160,000 people to flee across the frontier in one of the biggest single exoduses of Syria's civil war.
