And she gives herself a very different name Mother of Exiles.

In November, Chinese officials, live on national TV, ridiculed Tibetan exiles proposals for negotiation.

Syria s suspected support for Iraqi Baathist exiles threatens to damage relations with the new Iraq.

In the Russian Empire, Krasnoyarsk was one of the places to which political exiles were banished.

The Versailles restaurant in Miami's Little Havana has long been a meeting place for outspoken Cuban exiles.

Those protests made him wonder if Iranian exiles like himself might ever be free to go home.

No one in this supposedly conservative administration had ever heard of Machiavelli's 500 year old warning not to trust exiles?

The rabidly anti Castro Cuban exiles clustered in Miami argue that it is fear that holds Cubans back, but that's not true.

How many Venezuelan exiles go out every day to walk the streets to offer their products, display their businesses, or hand out resumes?

Some long time leaders have been coaxed from office through blandishments, high profile international positions, or even amnesties and comfortable exiles in safe locations.

This warm welcome contrasts with Iraqi distrust of the political exiles who returned on the coattails of the American overthrow of Saddam Hussein s regime in 2003.

Western observers could accept the exiles assurances that their proposals on autonomy are negotiable and not bottom line demands, rather than damning them before talks start.

Unlike Arafat and his fellow exiles, Barghouti, the most prominent leader among the Young Guard, grew up under Israeli occupation, and was arrested and detained several times.

They urged the government to reconsider its decision and allow the public, especially the youth, to listen to the stories of the exiles featured in the film.

Meanwhile, the Versailles restaurant, a meeting point for many hard line Cuban exiles in Miami, was the barometer for measuring what many called a day of infamy.

Many have suffered the horrors of the regime physical and psychological violence, imprisonment, confiscation of properties, and travel documents, enforced disappearances, murders and hundreds of people forced into exiles.

The stranger consciously or unconsciously is always a potential or partial exile and all real writers are perpetual exiles from this world, even when, like Proust, they hardly leave their rooms.

Some Iranian reformers and exiles put a bright face on Ahmadinejad s election, arguing that his administration is more likely to show the regime s real face and disabuse any Western hopes of compromise.

Ignore all the lame excuses about the difficulties of assessing conflicting intelligence. No one in this supposedly conservative administration had ever heard of Machiavelli's 500 year old warning not to trust exiles?

The border dispute remains unresolved, with periodic incursions by Chinese troops onto Indian soil and new irritants such as the anti Chinese protests by Tibetan exiles who have been given asylum in India.

The impact of Obama's speech has been such that it has generated a strong opposition among the most conservative sector of exiles in Florida, home to more than 1 million residents of Cuban descent.

This documentary, which has been banned in Singapore, profiles nine political exiles who fled the island nation in the 1960s during Lee Kuan Yew s crackdown on leftist activists, and out of fear of persecution, never returned.

The CIA led invasion, executed by a motley group of Cuban exiles at the Bay of Pigs, was a military failure and a foreign policy disaster, one that led to the Cuban Missile Crisis the following year.

As you move upstairs, different areas cover aspects like exiles and international solidarity, media coverage, and torture including, chillingly, an electric shock device (made by General Electric not suggesting they intended it to be used for that purpose!).

Singapore s ruling party, the People's Action Party (PAP), has been in power for the past half century. It claims that some of the exiles interviewed in the film are communist leaders who tried to overthrow the government in the 1960s.

It sent in more troops, hid details of protestors deaths, gave a life sentence to an AIDS educator who had copied illegal CDs from India, and for months banned foreigners and journalists from the Tibetan plateau. In November, Chinese officials, live on national TV, ridiculed Tibetan exiles proposals for negotiation.

The Dalai Lama could cut down on foreign meetings and acknowledge that, despite China s general emasculation of intellectual and religious life in Tibet, some aspects of Tibetan culture (like modern art, film and literature) are relatively healthy. Western observers could accept the exiles assurances that their proposals on autonomy are negotiable and not bottom line demands, rather than damning them before talks start.