You know what? We’re shaking off that last ask, and focusing on the fact that they managed to get photojournalist Tim Hetherington into the Oscars “in memoriam” montage along with Steve Jobs.
We do not kill anyone that does not fight us. We need to check the circumstances in which [these] journalists died. And it’s war of course. People die from our side, from their side, people get caught in the middle. We need to check the circumstances. But of course we are very sad that someone died.Libyan spokesperson Moussa Ibrahim • Expressing remorse for the deaths of Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros in the broadest of terms. They’re sad that “someone died.” If that was the case, why are people dying? Not just journalists. Citizens. This is the same guy who tried to blame the victim in that terrible rape case a few weeks ago. For some reason, we’re not buying his broad apology. source (via • follow)
The photos Chris Hondros published just today are as harrowing as the story that took his life. Fires. Men with guns. Darkened stairwells. These are the stories that he fought to tell the public. And these stories were made all the more vital with his visuals.
Tim Hetherington, dead at 40: Here’s Hetherington with Sebastian Junger. The two war journalists co-directed “Restrepo,” the Oscar-nominated documentary for which both men braved being embedded with the U.S. military in the Korengal Valley, the most dangerous battlefield in all of Afghanistan. This tells you all you need to know about Hetherington, and what a serious, dedicated and courageous man he was. It’s intensely sad to report, then, of Hetherington’s death by mortar fire today in Misrata, Libya. Hetherington’s last post on Twitter: “In besieged Libyan city of Misrata. Indiscriminate shelling by Qaddafi forces. No sign of NATO.” His tragic death underlines the dangers embedded journalists face.
Thank you.
This. Thank you so much. These photos and stories tell us so many things we wouldn’t know otherwise.
UPDATE: We now live in an era where we identify those killed by their Twitter handle. Our best wishes to the families of Tim Hetherington, Chris Hondros and Guy Martin, and a hand held tightly for Hondros and Martin.
From Business Insider:
There are reports that photographers Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros have been killed in Libya.
The news was first posted on fellow photographer Andre Liohn’s Facebook page. Liohn is reportedly at the hospital.
The two were reportedly covering the fighting in Misrata. Yesterday Hetherington tweeted: “In besieged Libyan city of Misrata. Indiscriminate shelling by Qaddafi forces. No sign of NATO.”
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