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ndent BANGUI, Central African Republic – At Bangui
International Airport, nearly 100,000 people are living
in a makeshift camp after fleeing the unspeakable
violence that has seized this nation. They are hungry
and living chock-a-block in hangars and under the
wings of old airplanes. They believe the presence of French troops nearby will keep them safe. No one
appears to be in charge. Elsewhere in the city, an old monastery has been
turned into refugee center filled with children who have
endured horrors, like 8-year-old Ngaiso Chekina, who
lost her mother, father brother, sister and grandparents
to the sectarian brutality. “I am the only survivor,” she told NBC News. “I raised my hands to God like this but they didn’t
listen to me,” she said. “Finally they killed my mother.” Ngaiso is watched over by the only relative she has left,
a great-aunt. In a program run by Save the Children,
she drew a picture of her old life, with fish in a river
behind her home and flowers near the front door. At night, she dreams of her lost family and wakes up
crying. She says she has no words for the men who
killed her parents, only a prayer. “Bless me and keep me safe,” she said. Violence in Central African Republic
Uproots 1 Million There are reports the president of the Central
African Republic could step down as early as
Thursday, sparking fears of an even more unstable
situation. At the airport, the United National High Commissioner
for Refugees (UNHCR) was finally able to pass out
food for the first time in four weeks. At times the
desperation spilled out of control, with people yelling
and shoving for a place in line. "Before life was not like this. We are living like animals.
We kill each other because there is no justice,"
Archbishop of the Central African Republic, Dieudonné
Nzapalainga told NBC News, adding, "I ask God to
purify us so he can introduce us again to love each
other." The violence here has included documented cases of
crimes against humanity and war crimes, according to
Amnesty International. Both United States and United
Nations officials have feared a slide into genocide. On the streets, that fear is rising with reports that the
interim president of the Central African Republic could
soon step down. The reports from numerous news
agencies, including Reuters, cite diplomatic and
political sources as saying the resignation of President
Michel Djotodia is "imminent" and could come as early as  Thursday.  If that is true, the concern is, revenge
killings could come next. Djotodia is reportedly out of the country, heading to
Chad where a summit of regional leaders is being held. It was Djotodia's accendancy to the presidency that lit
the match for the rage of violence, when in this
majority Christian nation, mostly Muslim rebels seized
control of the government last March, and installed him
as the country's first Muslim president.  The rebels
then began targeting Christians.  After months of killings, raping and pillaging, Christians formed
vigilante groups in response. But there is more to what is fueling the horrific
intensity of the rampages.  These two groups include
separate ethnic tribes who've long struggled over
resources, though before the coup they were able to
live together and even inter-marry. Now both sides are accused of systematically targeting
the other, going house to house to pull people out of
their beds, killing mostly men but also women. Even
children have suffered the ugliest kinds of violence. Tim Sandler / NBC News Ann Curry interviews Archbishop of the
Central African Republic Dieudonné
Nzapalainga, who said of the crisis in his
country: "We are living like animals." The violence includes torture, lynchings, beheadings,
rape, drownings, people being set on fire, many ending
up in mass graves. It is happening throughout the
country, but most of the violence is here in Bangui. Dependable numbers of just how many people have
been killed are hard to find. About 1,000 people are
thought to have been killed since December, but the
true number is believed to be far higher. Fear of the
violence has 935,000 people, or more than 20 percent
of the country's population, on the run for safety, and more than half are children. As Amy Martin, head of the United Nations Office for
the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in CAR, told
NBC News, "This is like Darfur, plus anarchy."