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Marie Colvin 1956 - 2012

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Syrian forces murdered journalist Marie Colvin after pledging to kill "any journalist who set foot on Syrian soil", it has emerged.

Tributes are pouring in for Sunday Times foreign correspondent Marie Colvin who has been killed during an attack in Homs in Syria. Link

French photojournalist Remi Ochlik was also killed after shells reportedly hit a makeshift media centre in Baba Amr.

Her last report can be read here.

Is this what it fucking takes for people to read the reports she had recently filed? Sadly, Marie was usually the only journalist that was inside that circle of death in Homs.

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