Pyrdiwah, April 20 :    Pyrdiwah, April 20:  Life in Pyrdiwah village is limping back to normal. Today, residents led by the village headman, Poji Nongrum, visited the area that has been occupied by the Bangladesh Rifles and the Bangladesh army since Sunday evening. BSF director-general Gurucharan Jagat also visited Pyrdiwah today. Jagat went to the BSF outpost in the village after Mahendraganj where he had gone to receive the bodies of the slain BSF jawans. Trade along the Dawki-Tamabil route continued to remain paralysed. Superintendent of customs Apolok Das said even though the conflict in Pyrdiwah has been resolved, permission to open trade could not be given because of security reasons. The thousands who have been rendered homeless are reluctant to go back. However, chief minister E.K. Mawlong is hopeful that they will return soon. DIG V.S. Ahlawat said Thursday night passed off peacefully and the jawans have taken control of the village. 'Henceforth there will be no violation of the 1975 agreement,' Ahlawat said. Not a single bullet was fired and villagers for the first time after five days could go back to their village to see their broken homes. Khajal Lamin, a villager, said the sight was 'disgusting'. Most houses, he said, had been ransacked. They had not even spared churches and the only school in the village, he said. A visit to Pyrdiwah explained Lamin's disgust. There was graffiti all over the church walls that read aita Bongo desh (this is Bangladesh) and joi Bangla (hail Bangladesh). Villagers demanded: 'The Bangladeshis will have to compensate for this.' Nongrum said the state government would be asked to convey their sentiments to the Centre to tell the Bangladeshi government to 'pay for all that they have done to the villagers'. The only thing missing in the village was the now familiar sight of BSF jawans with light machine guns, mortars and shoulder-propelled rocket launchers on hill tops and trenches. Most jawans have abandoned their positions. Only the BSF camp has been strengthened with more men. Two companies of the BSF are still positioned at Pyrdiwah, while three have been pulled out. Security is being tightened around neighbouring villages on the border like Lyngkhat and Umkrem. The local dorbar of Pyrdiwah, which falls under Raid Mukertilla, is meeting today to take stock of the situation. The syiem of Hima Mylliem, Laborious Manik Syiem, with other representatives of Khasi traditional dorbars is scheduled to attend the meeting. Representatives of the Federation of Khasi States said a message would be sent to the Centre that henceforth three instead of two parties should settle border disputes. The villages along the border, too, have a stake and they should be involved in any dialogue between India and Bangladesh, federation spokesperson John Kharshiing said. He said the Khasi states bordering Bangladesh do not accept foreign minister Jaswant Singh's statement that only a small portion was disputed and the rest has been demarcated. 'We do not accept the demarcated border,' he said. Another meeting of the dorbar of Raij Mukertilla, Hima Khyrim, will be held tomorrow at Umsyiem at 10 am. The meeting will be attended by Manik Syiem and the syiem of Khyrim, Balajied Sing Syiem. After the meeting, the two syiems will visit the Pyrdiwah. The state government is continuing to supply ration and relief material to the affected villagers. Deputy commissioner Lamba Roy said the district administration is providing two square meals and 100 grams of sugar to each family. Roy will visit Pyrdiwah tomorrow and explore the possibility of resettling the villagers by repairing their homes. 'In that case we may not have to rehabilitate them elsewhere,' he said.