Embed CodePlays: 1761 (Embed: 0)Suddenly, it came. A bone-chilling screech shattered the quiet of the
gray, subzero morning in the towering mountains south of Grozny. Russian
warplanes swooped like menacing hawks, spitting fire onto the narrow,
dirt road. At the center of a bull's-eye was a lone four-wheel-drive
vehicle carrying Chechen fighters and one of Europe's most daring war
correspondent.There was no time for Marie Colvin to wonder if she had gone too far
this time, smuggling herself past Russian checkpoints into the heart of
the carnage. Trapped in the back seat with no escape route, she braced
for the final impact.
Milliseconds later, slivers of glass and
steel went flying as a burst of high-caliber machine gun fire ripped
into the back end of the mud-caked vehicle. Operating on instinct,
Colvin scrambled free of the wreckage, running with Chechen fighters
into a field of thorny bushes and barren birch trees, scant cover from
an airattack. She remembers thinking, "This is a death trap." (Marie Colvin)
Colvin was in Chechnya in 1999.She was acknowledged by her peers as Britains foremost was correspondent.She was twice named foreign reporter of the year (2001 and 2010) in the British Press Awards. She was given an International Women's Media Foundation award for courage in journalism for her coverage of Kosovo and Chechnya.And the Foreign Press Association named her as journalist of the year in 2000.
Marie Colvin was killed on February 22,2012, while covering the seige of Homs in Syria.Salute to fearless journalism.If it wasnt for people like her the world would have become a planet of zombies.

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