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The Burma Army troops withdrew back to their base further off to the northwest on November 3rd 2006 and within days the villagers began returning home to their now long-overdue rice harvest. By this stage much of the crop had been eaten by wild animals or otherwise gone to seed while still on the stalks. Some villagers reported losing as much as 80 percent of their crop as a result. As the villagers came down out of the hills their temporary shelters were abandoned yet left standing should the need arise to return to them.