Marie Colvin killed in Syria: other female journalists killed

Her murder provoked outrage and the story was turned into a Hollywood film
starring Cate Blanchett.

The killing was alleged to have been ordered by a drugs baron – but he has
never been charged over the death.

In 2007, two women journalists were killed in Afghanistan.

Reporter Zakia Zaki was shot seven times as she slept with her
20-month-old son. Her death came six days after Shakiba Sanga Amaj, a
television newsreader, was killed.

Last year, two women journalists were found murdered in a Mexico City park.

The bodies of Ana Marcela Yarce Viveros, the founder of a political
magazine, and freelance reporter Rocio Gonzalez Trapaga were
discovered by joggers.

Their killings followed a pattern of murders by organised crime gangs and drug
cartels.

In 2009, radio journalist Uma Singh was hacked to death by a gang of
men in Nepal.

Singh had broadcast and written about women’s rights and the caste system, as
well as political issues.

Dickey Chapelle, a US photojournalist who had covered the Second World
War in Iwo Jima and Okinawa, was killed by a landmine in Vietnam in 1965.

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