There's never an activist when you need one.

The Guardian today had a moving piece by Ros Wynne-Jones about the dreadful state of affairs in southern Sudan. In it, she says

The war in the south predates Darfur by 40 years; it has killed almost 10 times as many people - an estimated 2.2 million - but unlike Darfur, which borders Chad, it has been largely invisible to international view. Surrounded by thousands of miles of inhospitable scrubland, and bordered by the Nuba mountains and arid deserts of the north, the only approach is by air - but the airspace is controlled by a northern government with little interest in allowing aid agencies and observers into the south.

This is a war between the Arab Muslim north and the largely animist black south. In Darfur, where about 300,000 have died and 4 million made homeless, the war has been between the Muslim Arab Janjaweed militia, which is backed by Khartoum, and Africans, some of whom are Muslims.

Now my point is this - There are millions dead in south Sudan and Darfur, but where are the marchers of the Stop War Coalition? Come on, Benn and Galloway, aren't these Sudanese worth as much as the Palestinians? Come on DEC, where's the appeal for these poor buggers?