Marie Colvin had been in Sri Lanka covering the long-running civil war. In , she sneaked into the northern Vanni area — a stronghold of the rebel Tamil Tigers and a place where journalists were forbidden by the government from traveling.
One night, as she and her group were being smuggled back across the border, they were set upon by government troops. Colvin was lying in an open field with just weeds and darkness for cover.
Gunfire exploded overhead and a grenade suddenly burst nearby. But she did not die. She was eventually taken to a hospital, where she stubbornly clashed with a doctor who wanted to remove her eye, before bolting the country. She kept her eye but not the sight in it. From then on, she wore an eye patch, which quickly became her trademark and strengthened her reputation as a war correspondent with few equals.
Now, six years after her death, she is back in the spotlight with two new movies recounting her life. It was about the innocent civilians whose lives were being destroyed. Although she reported from places so dangerous that she was forced to mark her clothing with her blood type in case tragedy struck, her beginnings were more commonplace. She grew up one of five children in Oyster Bay, LI.
Marie Colvin had a mission that she turned into a vocation: to go to the most violent places on earth and bear witness to what man does to man, no matter the personal toll. Copyright , Marie Brenner. All rights reserved.
Marie Brenner is a writer-at-large at Vanity Fair. HWD Daily From the awards race to the box office, with everything in between: get the entertainment industry's must-read newsletter.
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