Marie Colvin Dead: Sunday Times Releases Colvin's Final Piece Outside Of Pay wall

The Sunday Times Of London:

They call it the widows’ basement. Crammed amid makeshift beds and scattered belongings are frightened women and children trapped in the horror of Homs, the Syrian city shaken by two weeks of relentless bombardment.

Among the 300 huddling in this wood factory cellar in the besieged district of Baba Amr is 20-year-old Noor, who lost her husband and her home to the shells and rockets.
“Our house was hit by a rocket so 17 of us were staying in one room,” she recalls as Mimi, her three-year-old daughter, and Mohamed, her five-year-old son, cling to her abaya.

Read the whole story at The Sunday Times Of London

Comments

[jsychu]

11:43 AM on 02/23/2012

RIP Marie. Thank you for your great work over the decades! My admiration for all you conflicts correspondents who risk your lives to tell it as it happens. Bravo! May your families find solace!

[Karen Suzanne Wood]

06:31 AM on 02/23/2012

Heart-wrenching, all of it.

[C Sparkman]

03:14 AM on 02/23/2012

Saw a clip of a crowd in the streets, honoring Colvin and the French photographer. Was very moving. It's time to bomb the palaces.

[wbfree]

03:31 PM on 02/22/2012

This story, Read the whole story at The Sunday Times Of London, is one written many times by many journalists. What she has to say is the true story of the lives of real human beings like you and I. The ones no one ever hears about. We just want to live in peace yet are never granted it by those who could. They choose war and oppression to imprison, torture, murder and eviscerate us in the name of power and money, their dual gods.

She had the decency and the care to write about the ones who always pay, the forgotten. For that alone I admire her.

She was a courageous human being, and although I didn't know her I wish her peace

[splintercottage]

01:34 PM on 02/22/2012

Yes, godspeed and farewell. My you find peace. A quiet place. With warm yellow sun.Where the birds sing ... they are the first to flee. And the children laugh and giggle rather than sob ... which is not natural.

You stayed longer than most. Was it hope? A dream? That maybe something could be done. To touch sane folks? I doubt it was for the action ... the smells and sadness remain a lifetime. NO good journalist wishes to die in a "meeting" or giving someone hell about what they shuld have done or written.

You did not go back to London. I see you were measuring the inbetween. Like Capa said of Taro ... You went to Syria and stayed on.

Permit me to stand witness that it has meaning. Adeiu.

[hoosierhelen]

10:59 AM on 02/22/2012

A tragic reporting done so very well. RIP and know that your stories are being read and felt world wide. Marie Colvin, what a brave woman and true human being you were.

I most sincerely hope our international community will comprehend our needs to protect these innocent civilians from slaughter. Why Russia and China are willing to support the Syrian leadership is a mystery to me? Iran's government is and has been so divisive in all their dealings, I'm not surprised in their case.

Condolences to Marie Colvin's loved ones.

[bmermaid]

09:49 AM on 02/22/2012

Rest in Peace. I happened to see her report on Anderson Cooper last night, and all I could think about was how are these journalists surviving to report this?