War heroine, war hero dead

OpEd Thursday, February 23, 2012

OpEd

Marie Colvin was killed along with a French colleague when their safehouse was shelled in Homs.

This one-eyed woman was truly brave.

Marie Colvin, 55, lost an eye to a shrapnel bomb in Sri Lanka in 2001.

Today, she and a colleague, a Frenchman named Remi Ochlik, 28, were killed by a bomb in Homs, the hometown of Steve Jobs’ family in Syria.

This was shortly after Anthony Shadid of the New York Times had also died in Syria.

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“Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice.” – Colvin

Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik won lots of awards.

Remi was quite daring. His website has lots of photos.

I weep for my fellow travellers whom I’ve never met. Their courage brought them to battlefields where bullets do not recognise race, religion, rank or position.