( 4UMF NEWS ) Journalist Killed In Syria:
An American journalist and French photographer were killed Wednesday in Syria after government forces shelled the restive central city of Homs. Activists said at least two other Western journalists were injured in barrages that claimed at least 19 lives.
In Paris, French government spokeswoman Valerie Pecresse said those killed were French photojournalist Remi Ochlik and American veteran war reporter Marie Colvin, who worked for Britain’s Sunday Times for the past two decades. France’s Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe, said the attacks show the “increasingly intolerable repression” by Syrian forces.
Colvin, from Oyster Bay, New York, was a war reporter who had covered conflicts from Sri Lanka to Syria. Just hours before her death, she spoke with CNN’s Anderson Cooper about the alarming conditions in Syria.
In 2001 while covering the conflict between Sri Lanka’s government and rebels, Colvin sustained four shrapnel wounds in her head, eye, chest and arms.
Colvin described her harrowing entrance into Syria on “a smugglers’ route, which I promised not to reveal” in an article published February 19 in the Sunday Times.
The Syrian military has redoubled its attacks on Homs in the past few days, aiming to retake neighborhoods that have come under control of the opposition and armed rebels – many of them military defectors. The seizure of territory and nearly daily clashes between the rebels and regime forces have pushed Syria to the brink of all-out civil war.
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