About 100,000 people displaced by postelection violence in Kenya have returned home this month despite threats of attacks, an official said Friday.

No serious incidents were reported and security personnel are in place, Internal Security Minister George Saitoti told journalists.

More than 1,000 people were killed and about 300,000 people forced from their homes in violence following Kenya’s disputed Dec. 27 elections. President Mwai Kibaki and former opposition leader Raila Odinga signed a power-sharing deal in February aimed at ending the violence. Odinga became prime minister last month.

At the beginning of May, about 150,000 had voluntarily returned home or gone to live with relatives, according to the Kenya Red Cross Society. On May 5, the government began a major push to return the rest of those displaced to their homes.

The government will form peace, justice and reconciliation committees in villages to ensure the current calm is sustained, Saitoti said.

In a statement Friday, Human Rights Watch said international aid agencies and local solidarity groups have reported a handful of cases of government officials forcing people to return home or cases in which those who returned had to go back to camp because they found no shelter or food.

“Returning people to unsafe or contested areas in a hurry will only lead to an illusion of peace and in the long run make matters worse,” said Georgette Gagnon, the Africa director of Human Rights Watch.

On Thursday, Kibaki named a three-member commission to investigate the postelection violence.