Journalist Marie Colvin Died Trying to Get Her Shoes, Her Paper Reports
“They were first in another house, and the top floors there were blown off,” she said. “First (the Syrian forces) rocketed the front of the building,” she said, fueling suspicion that the attack against a makeshift media center where Colvin and Ochlik were holed up was no accident.
The Syrian government was not immediately available for comment.
The day before she was killed, Colvin had given media interviews to networks like ITN and CNN about the ongoing clashes in Homs, and about a child who was killed in the city.
“The baby’s death was just heartbreaking,” she told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “We just watched this little boy, his little tummy, heaving and heaving as he tried to breathe. It was horrific. My heart broke.”
Colvin reported Tuesday that there was “constant shelling in the city” and that the child’s death was “just one of many stories” in violence-wracked Homs. “It’s chaos here.”
Journalists and activists have been sneaking into Syria in an effort to report on the protests and clashes that have persistently challenged the authority of President Bashar al-Assad.
Colvin said graphic images like that of the dying child, who was reportedly struck in the chest by a piece of shrapnel, needed to be shown.
“Something like that I think is actually stronger for an audience, for someone who’s not here, for an audience for which the conflict, any conflict, is very far away. But that’s the reality,” she said.