Media News - Thursday, February 23, 2012

Foreign journalists killed in Syria regime shelling

The French government on Wednesday confirmed the death two journalists in the Baba Amr area of Homs, Syria, as the Syrian regime continued its assault on the rebellious city. The reporters were French national Remi Ochlik, and Marie Colvin, an American working for Britain's Sunday Times newspaper. Both were veteran reporters in the Middle East and elsewhere, with Colvin's career spanning over two decades. Ochlik, 28, won a World Press Photo contest for his photograph showing a Libyan opposition fighter squatting on the ground underneath a Libyan flag, with a smoke-filled sky in the background. Colvin's work for the Sunday Times was considered a leading conflict correspondent. She wore her trademark eye patch after losing her vision in the eye after an ambush in Sri Lanka in 2001. Two other journalists, French reporter Edith Bouvier of Le Figaro and British photographer Paul Conroy of the Sunday Times, were wounded as well in the bomb assault in Homs. France has since demanded access to any wounded Western journalists in Syria and summoned the Syrian envoy to Paris.Rights groups say more than 6,000 people have been killed in the 11-month uprising against the Assad regime. Independent confirmation of such figures is impossible due to a government ban on most foreign journalists from reporting in Syria. (Deutsche Welle)

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