There is no sanctuary here. Across West Africa, the bleak settlements of people fleeing war have become military recruiting grounds. With a spreading web of interrelated conflicts raging through the region, rebel and government forces alike have been drafting refugees to fill their ranks. The new recruits include refugees fleeing to foreign countries as well as those displaced within their own. Bored, hungry, impressionable teenagers appear to be among those in greatest demand. On the outskirts of the Liberian capital, Monrovia, a camp for internally displaced people has been so plagued by the conscription campaign of government militias that residents recently created a neighbourhood watch group, aid workers in the camp said. When the telltale pickup trucks of militia forces are seen approaching the camp, word is spread and young men are sent to hide in the woods.