Sorry guest, petr. I meant to also mention that the interview with Julie Flint is about her very recent trip into the Darfur region in Sudan. She balked at the notion that it was too difficult and/or too dangerous for international journalists, who are currently amassed on the Chad border rather than going into Sudan to get the real stories, to get into Darfur. Here is the gist of her response (cant' find a transcript of her interview on the NOW site, so this is from memory)to a question about how she got into Darfur when all the reporters along the Chad border said they couldn't get in:

"I walked right across. It's easy. It's easy. I'm sorry, I'd like to tell you I did something terribly brave and dangerous, but I didn't. I simply walked across the border and found the rebels."

If you watched any of the documentaries on the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, Julie Flint's interview is eerily similar to the reports of the sole Western journalist (from the BBC) who stayed behind in Rwanda once the massacres began, to act as one of the handful (literally, only about 5 people) of Western witness to the genocide, after Western journalists, diplomats, and their families had left.

It just causes your heart to ache. It makes you so bitter that we are so weak hearted, that we are so cowardly.