How could all these people know what memories there really are - about wounded friends, burned-out homes, dead children and no clear answers?

But as these burned-out homes are bought and improved, the city is revaluating them, pushing property taxes up by 40 percent, residents say.

Just outside the village are some burned-out homes where Albanians once lived.

"Brother, they will kill me here" said Mr. Blanco, as he stood by the ruins of his burned-out home.

People are moving back into their burned-out homes, though many must use blue tarpaulins issued by aid agencies as roofs.

Mostly people from the villages, they are refugees who have abandoned their burned-out homes and have sought work and shelter in the capital.

The scene outside a burned-out home in Aspen, Colorado.

The view of two burned-out homes from Mario Bedoya's house is also unnerving.

Residents near the burned-out home and others said yesterday that they had long complained to city officials about the behavior of the people who lived in the house.

Nobody told our people to run away or to stay away from their burned-out homes, but they were afraid that something else would happen.