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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Janine di Giovanni

My friend was killed for telling you the truth. Now the powerful are even more desperate to silence us

Marie Colvin in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, in February 2011.
Marie Colvin in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, in February 2011. Photograph: Ivor Prickett/The Sunday Times/EPA

A friend wrote to me last week to tell me that my name appeared in the Epstein files. “But it’s for a good cause,” he wrote. “Nothing sinister.”

In 2012, shortly after my friend and colleague Marie Colvin was killed in Homs, Syria, I met with the now-disgraced Norwegian diplomat Terje Rød-Larsen. Rød-Larsen was a renowned fixer who had negotiated the 1993 Oslo accords.

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