
"I think the reports of my survival may be exaggerated. In Baba Amr. Sickening, cannot understand how the world can stand by and I should be hardened by now. Watched a baby die today. Shrapnel, doctors could do nothing. His little tummy just heaved and heaved until he stopped. Feeling helpless. As well as cold! Will keep trying to get out the information," – the last blog post from Marie Colvin, before she was killed by the Assad regime in its assault on the city of Homs.
(Photo: The mother of Mohammed Shawi, 15, reacts next to her son's body at a hospital after he was shot by a sniper in Idlib in northwestern Syria on February 22, 2012. By Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images.)