Displaced families return home in remote Nepal district.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Excerpt from report by Nepalese daily newspaper Nepal Samacharpatra on 22 March

Jumla [district in mid western Nepal]: Two hundred and twenty-four people of 33 families who had been living the life of displaced people at district headquarters because of the armed conflict were sent back to their homes on Tuesday [20 March] with due dignity.

A special function was organized in Jumla during which they were daubed with vermilion powder [in a traditional gesture of good auspices] and given a farewell.

Present at the farewell function were representatives of all political parties except the Maoists, …