LONDON -- On a snowy afternoon the day after Easter, I made way down Whitehall towards the Houses of Parliament. A small park called Parliament Square sits opposite the gilded building. It lies next to Westminster Abby and is the postal address for Brian Haw.

Haw has lived in a small tent village in Parliament Square since June 2001. It’s a non-violent protest that has seen him arrested, beaten and recognized with awards. He exists, he says, and gets offended when people ask him why he camps out. He asks you in troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan are camping.

Sitting in the shadows of statues of Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churcill and Nelson Madela, Haw’s peace camp displays pictures of dead soldiers and children who are killed or maimed in the war. Tattered peace flags wave amid a clothesline of faux bloody shirts.

Haw hates this war. He hates it so much that he is prohibited from seeing his wife and seven children until it’s over.

"I want to go back to my own kids and look them in the face again knowing that I've done all I can to try and save the children of Iraq and other countries who are dying because of my government's unjust, amoral, fear - and money - driven policies. These children and people of other countries are every bit as valuable and worthy of love as my precious wife and children,” he writes on his site.

 He mourns the children injured or killed in battle, and keeps a poster of a child, deformed by what he says are the results of the use depleted uranium.

He hates this war. But he feels for the soldiers. The war, he says, is another in a long line of imperial battles waged by the U.S. and U.K. He calls President Bush, Prime Minister Gordon Brown and former Prime Minister Tony Blair “butchers.” He rails against the “United States of Assassins and Genocide Britain.”

I wish I could show you the sad songs he writes, soft elegies that show the heartbreak he feels for the children of the war.

He told me his story. Check it out on, and visit Brian’s Web site for more information.