. >> i was 12 and lived in bangui. an armed group forced me to go with them.nce then, i've liveded aroud here. i'm 17 now. it was terrible. i i saw and i did the most a al things. the life that i had all of those years was no life at all. >> there's no safe haven for chilildren in thisis environmef violence. at least there's a playground in the camp. but the legacy of war is unmistakable even here. sometimes achille spends time with other children in the camp in the afternoon. but nothing is like it used to be. >> i had a good life in my village. i had lots of friends. we had a lot of fun together. we had school lessons under the big tree. in the evenings, we sang and danced in the moonlight. but that's all gone. many of my friends are dead, and the others are in refugee camps. lucie and achille share a similar fate, and they face a highly uncertain future. and as it stands now, a peaceful solution between the warring parties seems unlikely. >> the central african republic has a population of just 5 million, but a total area almost twice the size of germany. w