In the last weeks, there were several incidents of beatings of returnees, but so far there have been no reports of murders of people who had come back. At Manatutu town, about a dozen returnee families remain at a school a week after their return, fearing for their safety in their neighborhoods. In general, returnees have integrated peacefully. Members of the CNRT, the umbrella organization for East Timorese political groups, are active at the grass roots urging victims of last autumn s atrocities not to take the law into their hands and wait until courts are established. Life has returned to normal in most areas of East Timor.
Children attending schools are familiar sights in villages.
People are harvesting crops at the end of the rainy season. More U.N. police are deployed. Development of institutions to put order to mushrooming businesses, to control motor vehicles and to check rising criminality amid massive unemployment remains slow. Seventy-five percent of them are facing murder charges and some have been confined since October. Each kit has cement, iron roofing, timber, nails and tools.