Colombo, June 06: Some 300,000 refugees had gone back to their homes in Sri Lanka's embattled regions following a truce arranged by Norway, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today. There had been a visible improvement in the resettlement of people officially listed as "internally displaced persons," or IDPS, the UN agency's assistant high commissioner, Kamel Morjane told reporters here. "Visiting the area after 10 months the situation is quite contrasting. The change is physically visible," he said after touring the embattled areas. "I am quite optimistic that whatever the present difficulties in the peace process, the people have voted with their feet and returned to their homes." The peace process is stalled since the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) announced April 21 that they were boycotting talks to protest what they call the slow delivery by the government on promises made. The Tigers are also boycotting a crucial international donors conference Tokyo is hosting Monday to drum up financial support for rebuilding Sri Lanka and strengthening the peace process. Morjane, who is travelling to Tokyo for the aid conference, said he expected the Tigers to end the boycott and attend the conference to jointly appeal for foreign aid to rebuild the island nation wracked by three decades of ethnic bloodshed. Bureau Report