AHMEDABAD, India -- More than three months after India's worst religious bloodshed in a decade, thousands of Muslims remain in relief camps because they have nowhere to go or fear for their lives if they return to their homes.

others in the relief camps say the government's compensation payments are not enough for them to return to their homes.

Many of the 110,000 people who sought refuge in camps during the riots in western Gujarat state have returned to their homes, but relief officials say at least 30,000 Muslims are still packed into ramshackle tents, Reuters reported.

"Hindu mobs have destroyed everything. How do officials expect us to come and stay here?" Salim Ismail, a rickshaw driver, said as he surveyed his ransacked two-room house in a mixed neighborhood.

"They have not only looted our belongings but taken away the doors and windows and damaged the roofs as well," he said.

Some Muslims say they have chosen to stay on in relief camps because they have been warned by Hindu neighbors not to return.

"You are banned from coming here again," read the graffiti outside a Mosque on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, Gujarat's main city which bore the brunt of the communal frenzy.

Muslims, who have dared to return home, say they have been shocked by the graffiti on the walls of their houses and mosques, warning them of further attacks.

Muslims bore the brunt in the riots which started late in February after a Muslim mob torched a train carrying Hindu devotees, killing 59 people. Officials said nearly 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, died in