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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