[In the Field] Mia Farrow: Bossongoa to Markonda in Northwest Central African Republic

© UNICEF/HQ07-0133/PirozziI listen as women and children recount the atrocities they have witnessed. Some 1,000 people live here in the bush after their homes in the nearby village were burned and looted by armed forces.

Today we drove for most of the day through the bush and on the roughest of dirt roads. We passed through countless burnt villages. Survivors of these attacks have fled into the bush, where they have been living for more than a year. When we stopped passing by the burnt villages people emerged from behind trees. They have nothing. They survive by eating leaves. They are without clothes, blankets or a clean water source. At least 150,000 people are living under these deplorable conditions. A woman told me, Our children are getting sick and dying there is nothing we can do. We can not return to our villages. We would be massacred.