- Die preisgekrönte Korrespondentin Marie Colvin gab ein Auge, um die Wahrheit über den Bürgerkrieg in Sri Lanka zu sagen, und als in Syrien ein Bürgerkrieg ausbrach, gab sie ihr Leben.
- Marie Colvins persönliches Leben
- Early Years In The Field
- The Sri Lankan Civil War
- Early Years In The Field
- The Sri Lankan Civil War
- Early Years In The Field
- The Sri Lankan Civil War
- Marie Colvins endgültige Aufgabe
- Ein privater Krieg und Colvins Vermächtnis
Die preisgekrönte Korrespondentin Marie Colvin gab ein Auge, um die Wahrheit über den Bürgerkrieg in Sri Lanka zu sagen, und als in Syrien ein Bürgerkrieg ausbrach, gab sie ihr Leben.
Trunk Archive.Ein Porträt von Colvin aus dem Jahr 2008 des Fotografen und Musikers Bryan Adams.
Marie Colvin, die überlebensgroße Journalistin, die ohne zu blinken in den Krieg kam, schien eher eine Figur aus einem Comic zu sein als eine amerikanische Außenkorrespondentin für eine Zeitung - und das nicht nur wegen ihrer Augenklappe.
Colvin ging freiwillig dorthin, wo die meisten es nicht gewagt hätten. Sie wagte sich mitten auf einem Motorrad mitten auf einem Motorrad nach Homs, Syrien, als die syrische Regierung ausdrücklich damit gedroht hatte, "jeden in Homs gefundenen westlichen Journalisten zu töten".
Diese gefährliche Mission am 20. Februar 2012 würde sich jedoch als der letzte Bericht von Marie Colvin herausstellen.
Marie Colvins persönliches Leben
Tom Stoddart-Archiv / Getty Images Eine junge Marie Colvin ganz links im Flüchtlingslager Bourj al-Barajneh in der Nähe von Beirut, Libanon, beobachtete 1987, wie ein Kollege darum kämpfte, das Leben eines Flüchtlings zu retten.
Marie Colvin, obwohl 1956 in Queens geboren und Absolventin von Yale, fand im Ausland ein Zuhause, sei es in Europa oder an Orten mit tiefen Konflikten. Sie
The following year in Iraq Colvin met her first husband, Patrick Bishop, a diplomatic correspondent for The Times . They had a short marriage as Bishop had an affair while Colvin was off on assignment.
But Colvin was hearty in relationships as she was in her career. She fell in love again and remarried in 1996 to a fellow journalist, Bolivian-born Juan Carlos Gumucio. Their relationship was reportedly tempestuous, and Gumucio committed suicide in 2002.
Early Years In The Field
Known for her attention to detail and ability to humanize the inhumane, Colvin rushed into combat zones with an almost careless disregard for her own life and oftentimes did more than report.
In 1999, when East Timor was fighting for independence from Indonesia, Colvin stationed herself inside of a United Nations compound alongside 1,500 refugees, all of them women and children, besieged by an Indonesian militia threatening to blow the building to pieces. Journalists and United Nations staff members alike had abandoned the city. Only Colvin and a handful of partners stayed with her, holding the place to keep the people inside safe and the world aware of exactly what was happening.
She was stuck in there for four days, but it paid off. All the publicity her stories had generated put immense pressure on the world to act. Because she’d stayed there, the refugees were evacuated, and 1,500 people lived to see another day.
Colvin, always aloof even when a hero, quipped once she had returned to safety: “What I want most is a vodka martini and a cigarette.”
For Marie Colvin, reporting the difficult and extreme was obvious. “There are people who have no voice,” she said. “I feel I have a moral responsibility towards them, that it would be cowardly to ignore them. If journalists have a chance to save their lives, they should do so.”
The Sri Lankan Civil War
The following year in Iraq Colvin met her first husband, Patrick Bishop, a diplomatic correspondent for The Times . They had a short marriage as Bishop had an affair while Colvin was off on assignment.
But Colvin was hearty in relationships as she was in her career. She fell in love again and remarried in 1996 to a fellow journalist, Bolivian-born Juan Carlos Gumucio. Their relationship was reportedly tempestuous, and Gumucio committed suicide in 2002.
Early Years In The Field
Known for her attention to detail and ability to humanize the inhumane, Colvin rushed into combat zones with an almost careless disregard for her own life and oftentimes did more than report.
In 1999, when East Timor was fighting for independence from Indonesia, Colvin stationed herself inside of a United Nations compound alongside 1,500 refugees, all of them women and children, besieged by an Indonesian militia threatening to blow the building to pieces. Journalists and United Nations staff members alike had abandoned the city. Only Colvin and a handful of partners stayed with her, holding the place to keep the people inside safe and the world aware of exactly what was happening.
She was stuck in there for four days, but it paid off. All the publicity her stories had generated put immense pressure on the world to act. Because she’d stayed there, the refugees were evacuated, and 1,500 people lived to see another day.
Colvin, always aloof even when a hero, quipped once she had returned to safety: “What I want most is a vodka martini and a cigarette.”
For Marie Colvin, reporting the difficult and extreme was obvious. “There are people who have no voice,” she said. “I feel I have a moral responsibility towards them, that it would be cowardly to ignore them. If journalists have a chance to save their lives, they should do so.”
The Sri Lankan Civil War
