In some cases, residents returned to find bodies still scattered around their homes.

Officials said it would be at least three weeks before residents could return.

The troops then pulled out and the male residents returned.

In some parts of the region, residents were returning to their homes today.

A year later the residents returned and rebuilt the community.

All the same, much has improved since residents first returned to a nearly deserted city almost three months ago.

The residents did not return until 1981-82, after the end of the clashes.

A week later, residents of one village have returned to find little left to repair.

But green meant the building was safe and the resident could return.

As residents returned home from work yesterday, many of them broke into tears when they heard the news.