Bangui — An entire generation of Central African youth has been scarred by three years of relentless bloodshed. At the height of the crisis, villages were burned to the ground, and sexual violence was widespread. Hundreds of thousands were forced to flee their homes. But today, as a fragile stability takes hold, a peer education programme is helping the country's young people to reject violence.
Miriam* was 14 when she was raped by a rebel soldier in front of her parents.
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