Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik killed in Syria - Wounded reporters escape besieged Homs

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Marie Colvin dies along with photographer Remi Ochlik after shell hits house in Homs, while three activists are also killed

Martin Chulov
guardian.co.uk, <TIME datetime="2012-02-22T06:39EST" pubdate>Wednesday 22 February 2012 06.39 EST

</TIME>The veteran Sunday Times correspondent Marie Colvin and the French photographer Remi Ochlik have been killed in the Syrian city of Homs when an artillery shell hit the house in which they were staying.

Two other foreign reporters as well as seven activists from the ravaged Bab al-Amr neighbourhood were also wounded on Wednesday.

In the deadliest attack on media since the uprising in Syria began, at least three activists were also killed. The three Syrians had all played prominent roles in chronicling the regime's assault Homs over the past four months. One of those killed was the video blogger, Rami al-Sayed, also known as Syria Pioneer, who had uploaded to the internet at least 200 videos of death and destruction in his neighbourhood.

One of the wounded is the a freelance photographer, Paul Conroy, who was travelling with Colvin.

Colvin, a decorated correspondent with more than 30 years of experience in conflict zones, and Ochlik, who last month won a World Press Photo award, died instantly when the shell struck the safe house that had been provided for them by local activists just after 9am. Her body, along with Ochlik's was recovered from the rubble just after 1pm.

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Wounded journalists being treated in Syria [Video]

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Journalists injured in the shelling of Homs, a central Syrian city where two Western journalists were killed Wednesday, are treated for their wounds in this video, uploaded to YouTube by opposition activists.

The wounded are identified in the video as Le Figaro journalist Edith Bouvier and British freelance photographer Paul Conroy, who was working for the Sunday Times. Both received leg wounds, The Los Angeles Times reported earlier Wednesday morning.

In the video, a doctor explains that Conroy has deep gashes in his left leg and Bouvier needs emergency medical care, the Associated Press reported.

"There is a high risk she [Bouvier] will bleed to death without urgent medical attention," a Syrian opposition activist told Reuters.

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Assad forces bomb Syria's Homs

By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Angus MacSwan

AMMAN/BEIRUT | Wed Feb 22, 2012 5:28pm EST
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THAT'S ENOUGH

French President Nicolas Sarkozy described the deaths of the two journalists, French photographer Remi Ochlik and American Marie Colvin of Britain's Sunday Times, as an assassination and said the Assad era had to end.

"That's enough now," Sarkozy said. "This regime must go and there is no reason that Syrians don't have the right to live their lives and choose their destiny freely. If journalists were not there, the massacres would be a lot worse."

The two journalists were killed when the house in which they were staying after sneaking over the Lebanese border into Homs was hit by rockets.
Sunday Times editor John Witherow said the journalists may have been deliberately targeted.

"Given (Syrian security forces') attitude towards the media, their hostility ...then it is quite reasonable to assume that they were targeting any journalists there," he told the BBC.

The last dispatch from Colvin -- a veteran war reporter who wore a trademark black eye-patch since being wounded in Sri Lanka in 2001 -- described the misery inside Baba Amro.

Women and children were crammed together into a basement, huddled in fear and a two-year-old child had died in front of her, she reported on British radio.

Britain's foreign office summoned the Syrian ambassador to London to stress the "grief" felt over the deaths of Colvin and Ochlik, and demanded that British photographer Paul Conroy, injured in the same attack, receive medical treatment.

Reporter Edith Bouvier for French newspaper Le Figaro and Paris-based photographer William Daniels were also wounded in the strike on the Homs house, which global advocacy group Avaaz said had been occupied by journalists and opposition activists.

Bouvier suffered severe injuries to her hip and thigh and was at risk of bleeding to death without urgent medical care, said a member of Avaaz, which has been working with journalists and activists inside Syria.

"We are desperately trying to get her out, doing all we can in extremely perilous circumstances," the source said [ID:nL5E8DMAJX].
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Journalist: Syria's government lies
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Journalist Marie Colvin was with a baby in Syria when he died from his wounds. She describes the conditions in Homs.

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Syria: French journalist appeals for evacuation

Edith Bouvier, a French reporter for Le Figaro, has appealed for urgent medical attention and asked to be evacuated quickly from the Syrian flashpoint city of Homs.

Her appeal came as the Syrian information minister claimed the governor of Homs had been told to try to evacuate Western journalists killed or wounded in the besieged Baba Amr district, following the deaths of Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik.


Adnan Mahmum, the information minister told the AFP news agency: "For humanitarian reasons, and although they entered the country without a permit to go to an area controlled by terrorists, the governor of Homs has been told to exert every effort possible to evacuate the journalists."

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Wounded reporters in Syria's Homs appeal for ceasefire

By Erika Solomon
BEIRUT | Fri Feb 24, 2012 1:03am GMT


BEIRUT (Reuters) - Wounded foreign journalists trapped inside a besieged rebel-held neighborhood in Syria on Thursday appealed for a ceasefire so they could be evacuated and receive proper medical care.
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The International Committee for the Red Cross said it was trying to negotiate daily two hour ceasefires in Homs to provide aid to civilians in violence-hit areas.

In his video message, Conroy appeared relaxed and said he was in good health.

"I'm currently being looked after by the Free Syrian Army medical staff...Obviously any assistance we can be given by agencies would be welcome," he said.

Activists say conditions are very bad in Baba Amro, with electricity and phone lines cut and food running low. Conroy spoke by lantern-light as he lay on pillows on the floor. His swollen thigh was wrapped in white bandages.

The doctor treating him and Bouvier warned that surgery was critical to prevent blood clots in her leg, which could put her body into toxic shock and put her at risk of death.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy called the rocket assault that killed the journalists on Wednesday an "assassination."

"I saw the pictures, it's an assassination," he said, referring to the picture. "Those who carried out the assassination will have to pay for it."

British Prime Minister David Cameron, at a London news conference, said the Syrian government was guilty of butchery and murder.

(Reporting by Erika Solomon; Editing by Angus MacSwan and Myra MacDonald)

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Distrust between Syria, rebels blocks Red Cross evacuation of wounded journalists

By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, February 24, 4:26 PM

BEIRUT ? A Red Cross team evacuated seven people from a besieged neighborhood in the Syrian city of Homs Friday but apparently failed to get out two wounded Western journalists and the bodies of two others killed by government rockets.
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A local activist, Abu Mohammed Ibrahim, reached on Skype, said the journalists had refused to leave because the ICRC did not enter, only the Syrian Red Cresent, which he said is full of ?collaborators with the regime.?

?The journalists also refused to give over the bodies,? he said. ?They don?t know what the government is going to do with them.?

He said the four journalists remained in the city, each staying in a different apartment, and that the two dead bodies are being kept in yet another apartment, where they have begun to decay.

The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the claim.

Speaking at the Tunisia conference, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Syrian authorities had refused a request to tell the French Ambassador to Syria travel to Homs to arrange the evacuation.

?I appeal personally to the Syrian authorities that Madame Bouvier and the others receive the medical care they urgently need,? he said.

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2 wounded foreign reporters escape Syria after being trapped in besieged Homs

By Associated Press, Updated: Tuesday, February 28, 10:54 AM


<!-- /byline --><ARTICLE>BEIRUT ? Two wounded Western journalists escaped from Syria Tuesday after being trapped for days in the besieged central city of Homs, activist groups said. Thirteen Syrian activists who were helping smuggle out at least one of the reporters were killed in the operation, one of the groups said.

The global activist group Avaaz said it helped smuggle British photographer Paul Conroy across the border into neighboring Lebanon. French President Nicolas Sarkozy said French journalist Edith Bouvier had also been evacuated, but it was not immediately clear how she got out and where she was taken.

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Wounded UK journalist blasts 'butchery,' recalls harrowing escape from Syria

From Nima Elbagir, CNN
March 5, 2012 -- Updated 1252 GMT (2052 HKT)

London (CNN) -- From his London hospital room, journalist Paul Conroy recalled Sunday his harrowing journey to hell and back from Syria -- speaking out against what he called its "murderous regime" in tribute to those, including his colleague Marie Colvin, killed in the chaos.

President Bashar al-Assad's government blames "armed terrorist groups" for the bloodshed. Yet senior U.N. official Lynn Pascoe told the Security Council last week that often over "100 civilians a day, including women and children" are being killed -- most of them the victims of what activists and witnesses have described as brutal attacks by Syrian government forces.

Conroy spoke to CNN at length, days after surviving a bloody attack and surreptitiously escaping from the ravaged city of Homs to Lebanon and eventually back to his native Britain. After spending several days in Syria, both reporting and lying wounded in an embattled medical center, he had no doubts about who was responsible.

Grim details of Syria reprisals emerge "It's really hard when you've got people presenting you with bits of people saying, 'Why aren't you helping?' What can I tell them?" Conroy said. "It's not like we don't know what's happening anymore. We do know."

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