Marie colvin why eye patch

Hilsum is the international editor for Channel 4 News in the U. Here is part of their conversation. I want to hear the story of Sri Lanka. How did she get the injury that resulted in that eye patch?

Well, this was in and she decided she would go into Tamil Tiger territory. No journalist — outside journalists — had been in for six years, and it really was a forgotten conflict. Through contacts in London, she got access and she went in, and she crossed the front line to get in. And she didn't get much of a story actually, because the Tamil Tigers rather failed to produce the leader who they said would talk to her. She thought: 'Okay, well I've done my best,' and [she] was coming out.

I had access to her diaries, and they're extraordinary because she describes how beautiful it was. She describes this jungle, and these butterflies She drops to the floor and everybody disappears, and then she knows she has to do something.

So she gets up, and she shouts: 'American journalists! American journalists! And then she feels this terrible pain in her eye and chest. And it's a rocket-propelled grenade, and she survived that but she had nightmares about that moment for years and years.

Then Paul and Marie screamed with relief as the car streaked down the highway. It will be released this month and stars Rosamund Pike as Colvin. On the day I visited, a pivotal scene was being filmed: Colvin was determined to get herself assigned to Sri Lanka in April of to cover a yet unreported situation in which refugees were under siege by government forces. She had a shouting match with her editor in the meticulously re-created newsroom.

The afternoon I spent on set was unnerving, as I knew what was coming for Colvin once she left the safety of that space. She would go to Sri Lanka and lose sight in one eye due to a grenade thrown at her after announcing she was a reporter and wear an eye patch for the rest of her life.

Heineman, just 34, has been nominated for an Academy Award for his documentary Cartel Land, but has never made a narrative feature film. US law allows prosecution if the accused state is deemed a sponsor of terrorism. The Colvin family is unlikely to see their money, although they may pursue frozen Syrian assets, but they hope that a precedent has been set for Syrian civilians.

Since the war in Syria began, other defectors have smuggled out millions of documents that implicate the regime in countless crimes against humanity. These days the danger to journalists is not restricted to those reporting from war zones or rogue regimes — three journalists have been killed in the European Union in the past 18 months. Investigating the nexus between organised crime and corrupt officials is especially perilous. The commitment of Malta to establish who killed Daphne Caruana Galizia , blown up by a car bomb in October , may be undermined by the Maltese prime minister Joseph Muscat, who even last week was in court pursuing a libel case against her.