1.   And they waited for villagers to return from far away.

2.   After casting their votes, Yaqui villagers returned to their daily life.

3.   In those areas, some villagers are returning at their own risk.

4.   Lebanese villagers returned in some cases to destroyed homes, unpassable roads, whole areas without electricity or water.

5.   Most nights, Serb forces apparently fearful of NATO air attacks, would themselves go into hiding, allowing the villagers to return to find shelter.

6.   Now some villagers are returning to see the damage NATO has done, and nearly everyone thinks NATO has an obligation to help them rebuild.

7.   Now the villagers have returned, worn out by months or years of deprivation, penniless and hungry, their worldly belongings long gone.

8.   Some Kosovo villagers are returning to their battered homes, some littered with bodies, with a clear eye toward providing evidence to the tribunal.

9.   When the villagers returned they found their houses wrecked and their televisions, VCRs and satellite dishes stolen.

10.   When the villagers returned, they found sodden houses, ruined clothing and food and dead livestock.