Economic decline made the villagers leave for larger areas where jobs are more readily available.
Many villagers left the village due to drought in 1960.
However, no villagers or insurgents had left once the deadline passed.
Several dozen houses were destroyed and 60 villagers left for dead.
According to Morris, the remaining villagers probably left at this time.
Some villagers returned to the site soon after its destruction and finally left at the end of March.
But it was now the only hope that the battered villagers had left.
Porter called it a great victory because the villagers just left.
Therefore villagers would not leave clothes hanging to dry outside during the night hours.
One villager, Basil, will leave for the winter and return in the new year.