By Declan Walsh

Two million people displaced by fighting in north-west Pakistan started returning home in military-protected convoys today, triggering warnings from international relief agencies that the reverse exodus was too fast and too soon. Buses and trucks lined up outside crowded refugee camps to take the first batch of refugees back to their homes in the Swat valley, where the army says it has routed the Taliban after two months of sporadic combat. Pakistan's government is keen to reverse the mass migration, which is comparable to that triggered by the Rwandan genocide of 1994, because it has left limited resources severely strained.

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