Marie Colvin - On the Front Line - The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin

The Collected Journalism

of Marie Colvin

Simply: there’s no way to cover war properly without risk. Covering a war means going into places torn by chaos, destruction, death and pain, and trying to bear witness to that. I care about the experience of those most directly affected by war, those asked to fight and those who are just trying to survive.

Going to these places, finding out what is happening, is the only way to get at the truth. Despite all the videos you see on television, what’s on the ground has remained remarkably the same for the past 100 years. Craters. Burnt houses. Women weeping for sons and daughters. Suffering. In my profession, there is no chance of unemployment. The real difficulty is having enough faith in humanity to believe that someone will care.

MARIE COLVIN

The Sunday Times, 21 October 2001,

‘Bravery is not being afraid to be afraid’

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Marie at a university party during her time at Yale, New Haven, CT.

Marie on the beach, Cyprus, 1987.

Marie with her mother Rosemarie Colvin, at her wedding to Juan Carlos Gumucio in London.

Marie with nieces Michelle Colvin, right, and Justine Colvin, Oyster Bay, 2004.

Marie sailing near Zakynthos, 2007. Photograph by Richard Flaye.

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Epigraph

The Marie Colvin Memorial Fund

FOREWORD

by Cat Colvin

PART ONE

IRAN–IRAQ WAR

Basra – blitzed and battered, but not beaten– 25 January 1987

Black banners of death fly over Baghdad– 25 January 1987

Wine and lipstick lay Iran’s ghost to rest– 29 October 1989

MIDDLE EAST

Soviet settlers jolted by the promised land– 11 February 1990

Love sours for Romeo and Juliet of the West Bank– 1 April 1990

Desperately seeking answers in the Arafat slipstream– 5 June 1990

Home alone in Palestine– 19 September 1993

Arafat thrives amid cut and thrust of peace– 9 January 1994

LIBYA 1992–93

Frightened Libyans await the next blow– 19 April 1992

Adie’s minder cracks up– 26 April 1992

Lockerbie drama turns to farce– 3 October 1993

GULF WAR

Under fire– 27 January 1991

Ghosts of war stalk Basra’s empty streets– 23 August 1992

Critics are silenced as Saddam rebuilds Iraq– 4 October 1992

Shadow of evil– 22 January 1995

Blood feud at the heart of darkness– 8 September 1996

MIDDLE EAST

The Hawk who downed a dove– 12 November 1995

Israel’s peace hopes wither– 2 June 1996

Israeli bulldozers rev up for showdown in Jerusalem– 16 March 1997

Arafat encircled in battle for Jerusalem– 6 April 1997

KOSOVO

The centuries of conflict over a sacred heartland– 8 March 1998

Kosovo’s silent houses of the dead– 15 March 1998

Kosovo guerrillas fight Serb shells with bullets– 25 April 1999

Massacre in a spring meadow– 2 May 1999

Letter from … Kosare– 4 June 1999

The neighbour who burned with hate– 20 June 1999

British detectives on trail of men behind massacres – 27 June 1999

The enemy within – 15 August 1999

CHECHNYA

Wrath of Moscow leaves no place for Chechens to hide – 19 December 1999

Escape from Chechnya to a trial by ice – 2 January 2000

EAST TIMOR

Trapped by the terror squads in city of death – 12 September 1999

Courage knows no gender – 10 October 1999

PART TWO

ETHIOPIA

Horror of Ethiopia’s living dead – 9 April 2000

ZIMBABWE

Rape is new weapon of Mugabe’s terror – 28 May 2000

Hunzvi’s surgery is turned into a torture centre – 14 May 2000

SIERRA LEONE

Drug-crazed warriors of the jungle – 3 September 2000

How the hi-tech army fell back on law of the jungle and won – 17 September 2000

SRI LANKA

Fighting Tigers talk of peace deal – 15 April 2001

‘The shot hit me. Blood poured from my eye – I felt a profound sadness that I was going to die’ – 22 April 2001

Fighting back – 15 July 2001

Bravery is not being afraid to be afraid – 21 October 2001

MIDDLE EAST

A bitter taste for vengeance – 7 April 2002

Jenin: the bloody truth – 21 April 2002

Two terrible deaths tell story of the Palestinian predicament – 21 July 2002

GUANTANAMO

Mindless torture? No, smart thinking – 27 January 2002

IRAQ

One call from the great dictator and another day of designer torture began in prison – 4 August 2002

Why the great dictator thinks he can still win – 2 March 2003

Hunt for Saddam & Son, the murderous duo most wanted – 23 March 2003

Target Saddam – 21 December 2003

Iraq – 7 March 2004

Face to face with death in a ‘pacified’ Iraqi town – 29 October 2006

The butcher of Baghdad awaits his death sentence – 5 November 2006

‘I watched Saddam die’ – 31 December 2006

Sunni sheikhs turn their sights from US forces to Al-Qaeda – 9 September 2007

I felt a new terror on Basra’s streets – 16 December 2007

Saddam’s victims left to suffer as henchmen prosper – 3 February 2008

MIDDLE EAST

Gaza’s mourners plan ‘spectacular’ revenge – 28 March 2004

Into the underworld – 17 July 2005

Bulldozer Sharon wins through, but bigger battles may lie ahead – 21 August 2005

Fear and defiance in the battered city – 16 July 2006

Birth, death and destruction on Lebanon’s road to hell – 30 July 2006

Gaza’s deadly guardians – 30 September 2007

IRAN

Iran split as fun-hungry young spurn rigged poll – 15 February 2004

Despair and fear among the Tehran dancing classes – 26 June 2005

EGYPT

Mubarak lights a democratic flame – 4 September 2005