Marie Colvin: 1956-2012

After 18 days of shelling…
“… many of the dead and injured are those who risked foraging for food.”
(from Marie Colvin’s last report)
“Fearing the snipers’ merciless eyes, families resorted last week to throwing bread across rooftops, or breaking through communal walls to pass unseen.”
“I watched a little baby die today,”
she told the BBC on the eve of her death.
“Absolutely horrific, a 2-year old child had been hit. They stripped it and found the shrapnel had gone into the left chest and the doctor said ‘I can’t do anything.’ His little tummy just kept heaving until he died.”
The next day her own charred body laid under the rubble.
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Marie Colvin in Wikipedia
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Colvin often focused on the plight of women and children in wartime, and Syria was the same.
Her final report for the Sunday Times
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She gave interviews to major British broadcasters on the eve of her death: her last report to the BBC, Channel 4, CNN and ITN News was appealing for the world to notice the slaughter taking place.