Community | February 22, 2012 | 21 comments

Two Western Journalists Killed by Syrian Govt

source: http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/22/world/meast/syria-unrest/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

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"Two Western journalists were killed Wednesday in the Syrian city of Homs amid heavy shelling from government forces, opposition activists said.

The Sunday Times of London said one of the journalists reportedly killed was reporter Marie Colvin -- the only British newspaper journalist inside the embattled Homs neighborhood of Baba Amr.

And French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe confirmed journalist Remi Ochlik was killed in a bombing. He was 28.

The night before, Colvin was on air with CNN describing the horrific onslaught in Homs.
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"The Syrian army is shelling the city of cold, starving civilians," she told CNN's Anderson Cooper.

Colvin, a veteran correspondent who also covered last year's Libyan civil war, said the Syrian crisis was the worst conflict she had covered, partly because of the volume of ammunition and shelling falling on Homs.

"There's a lot of snipers on the high buildings surrounding the Baba Amr neighborhood. You can sort of figure out where a sniper is, but you can't figure out where a shell is going to land," she said."
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