As efforts begin to find a new president in the crisis-ridden Central African Republic, Sky News has heard harrowing stories from victims on both sides of the conflict.
Nearly one million people have been displaced by fighting between mainly Muslim Seleka rebels and "anti-balaka" Christian militia.
A coup last year in the Christian majority country brought Michel Djotodia, the Central African Republic's first Muslim leader, to power.
It also intensified the bloodletting. The violence has left half the population, around 2.2 million people, in desperate need of humanitarian aid. Food and medical supplies are increasingly hard to find.
Many have fled to refugee camps on the borders with the Democratic Republic of Congo and Cameroon.
Mr Djotodia resigned on Friday in the face of growing international pressure. The country's provisional parliament begins a special session on Tuesday to choose his successor.
These men were filmed by Sky News cutting pages of the Koran As the politicians attempt to bring order, people caught up in the bloodshed are trying to carry on with their lives, battling starvation and disease.
One Muslim woman Sky News filmed saw militiamen slash her husband and son slashed to death in front of her.
She has now been left to bring up her other two sons on her own and is sheltering in a makeshift camp in the courtyard of a school.
A man, also a Muslim, shook as he told of his attempts to stop his wife and two babies being burned alive. He said: "I've lost my life, I don't know what to do."
Another man in the camp described what is happening as a "big genocide".
This Muslim man's wife and two babies were burned alive For many Christians, the situation is the same.
A Christian woman said: "These are terrible conditions. We're abandoned here and we're still being threatened by the Muslim Seleka bandits."
Sky's Special Correspondent Alex Crawford said: "There are hundreds of thousands living like this now on either side of this religious divide, and both too scared to venture out of the separate camps they run to."
:: Watch Sky News live on television, on Sky channel 501, Virgin Media channel 602, Freeview channel 82 and Freesat channel 202.
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