![]() ![]() It was the first time she found that journalism could save lives. Colvin’s story on the front page of the Sunday Times had the headline War on Women: “She lay where she had fallen, face down on the dirt path leading out of Bourj al-Barajneh.” Three days later Syrian authorities ordered the militia to stop sniping. One was shot straight away in the head and abdomen. Once there, she watched as a group of women ran across the “Path of Death” to buy provisions. ![]() Colvin risked her life by entering, having bribed the soldiers not to shoot her. The camp was under siege by Shia militia, backed by Syria’s President Hafez al-Assad, which made it hazardous for journalists to enter the campand for inmates to leave to buy food. D uring the Lebanese civil war in 1987, Marie Colvin was the first journalist on the scene at a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut. ![]()
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