Marie Colvin

What would you risk your life for? It is a question which, thank God, most of us in the West, for two or three generations, haven't had to ask ourselves.

Marie Colvin risked her life to get news of war, of repression and suffering, in front of ordinary people like you and me, knowing that if these horrors were not published nothing would ever be done. She would often report from lesser known conflicts, recording and reporting frankly the terrible events to which she was witness.

Marie Colvin was killed in Homs, the main battleground of Syria's civil war. It seems her attackers knew who and where she was, which brings a new level of awfulness to an already sad tale.