. Two war photographers Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, were killed Wednesday, April 20 in Misrata, city of western Libya besieged for weeks by the forces Gaddafi. Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros were both aged 41 years. The two men were in a group that was hit by mortar fire in Tripoli Street, the main artery between the center and south of the city that are fighting insurgents and government forces.
"Everything was quiet and we were trying to get out when a mortar shell came. We heard explosions," he told the Spanish photographer Guillermo Cervera, present during the bombardment. Born in Liverpool, Great Britain, Tim Hetherington had covered many conflicts over the last ten years and won several prestigious awards, including the World Pressphoto Award in 2007 for his photographs of American soldiers in Afghanistan.
He then performed on this subject, with Sebastian Junger, the documentary Restrepo, Oscar nomination. Le Monde had met Hetherington and Junger in February to ask about their work in Afghanistan. Shot in the head, Chris Hondros died several hours later. On Wednesday, a photo he had done was the front page of The Washington Post.
It shows a sexton digging a grave in a cemetery in Misrata. Chris Hondros had covered conflicts including Kosovo, Angola, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan or Iraq. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, he won the 2006 Gold Medal Robert Capa for his "exceptional courage and initiative" in Iraq. Two other photographers were injured on Wednesday.
After two months of conflict with Libya, three journalists were killed, more than a dozen have been detained and others are missing. Ali Hassan Al Jaber, Al-Jazeera cameraman, was killed March 12 in an ambush near Benghazi. Nabous Mohamed, 28, was shot dead by the regime in Benghazi. It was not a professional journalist but had climbed the first free TV from Libya, Libya Hora, broadcast on satellite Internet.
At the announcement of the incident, the White House welcomed "journalists (who), the world risk their lives every day to inform us, to account executives and give voice to all those that nobody hear it. " Several international media have banned their reporters to go to Misrata due to excessive risks, before easing their restrictions.
Dozens of journalists arrived on Wednesday afternoon by boat from Benghazi, a stronghold of the rebellion in the east. A mortar shell also hit in the mid-day, two Ukrainian doctors, killing man and critically injuring her sister, according to medical sources Misrata. The situation is dangerous also in line Ajdabiya-Brega, another area of fighting between rebels and government forces in eastern countries.
On Sunday, a rain of rockets into Ajdabiya journalists were forced to retreat outside the city. Besides the dangers of combat, there are the disappearances. The fate of a British journalist of Al-Jazeera, Kamel Ataloua, remains unknown. Three others in the chain, a Tunisian, a Mauritanian and a Norwegian, arrested along with him on March 7 in western countries, have been released.
Four journalists, two Americans working for newspapers online, a Spaniard and a South African, one and the other photographers, disappeared on April 4. The Libyan government said they were detained and would be released, but the White House said Tuesday that Americans were "very worried" about them.
The spokesman for the National Transitional Council (CNT), the official organ of the rebellion, Abdelhafiz Ghoqa, said Wednesday evening that six Libyan journalists were also in the hands of Gadhafi. The blog dedicated to photography of the New York Times devotes two portfolios Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros. 
"Everything was quiet and we were trying to get out when a mortar shell came. We heard explosions," he told the Spanish photographer Guillermo Cervera, present during the bombardment. Born in Liverpool, Great Britain, Tim Hetherington had covered many conflicts over the last ten years and won several prestigious awards, including the World Pressphoto Award in 2007 for his photographs of American soldiers in Afghanistan.
He then performed on this subject, with Sebastian Junger, the documentary Restrepo, Oscar nomination. Le Monde had met Hetherington and Junger in February to ask about their work in Afghanistan. Shot in the head, Chris Hondros died several hours later. On Wednesday, a photo he had done was the front page of The Washington Post.
It shows a sexton digging a grave in a cemetery in Misrata. Chris Hondros had covered conflicts including Kosovo, Angola, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan or Iraq. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, he won the 2006 Gold Medal Robert Capa for his "exceptional courage and initiative" in Iraq. Two other photographers were injured on Wednesday.
After two months of conflict with Libya, three journalists were killed, more than a dozen have been detained and others are missing. Ali Hassan Al Jaber, Al-Jazeera cameraman, was killed March 12 in an ambush near Benghazi. Nabous Mohamed, 28, was shot dead by the regime in Benghazi. It was not a professional journalist but had climbed the first free TV from Libya, Libya Hora, broadcast on satellite Internet.
At the announcement of the incident, the White House welcomed "journalists (who), the world risk their lives every day to inform us, to account executives and give voice to all those that nobody hear it. " Several international media have banned their reporters to go to Misrata due to excessive risks, before easing their restrictions.
Dozens of journalists arrived on Wednesday afternoon by boat from Benghazi, a stronghold of the rebellion in the east. A mortar shell also hit in the mid-day, two Ukrainian doctors, killing man and critically injuring her sister, according to medical sources Misrata. The situation is dangerous also in line Ajdabiya-Brega, another area of fighting between rebels and government forces in eastern countries.
On Sunday, a rain of rockets into Ajdabiya journalists were forced to retreat outside the city. Besides the dangers of combat, there are the disappearances. The fate of a British journalist of Al-Jazeera, Kamel Ataloua, remains unknown. Three others in the chain, a Tunisian, a Mauritanian and a Norwegian, arrested along with him on March 7 in western countries, have been released.
Four journalists, two Americans working for newspapers online, a Spaniard and a South African, one and the other photographers, disappeared on April 4. The Libyan government said they were detained and would be released, but the White House said Tuesday that Americans were "very worried" about them.
The spokesman for the National Transitional Council (CNT), the official organ of the rebellion, Abdelhafiz Ghoqa, said Wednesday evening that six Libyan journalists were also in the hands of Gadhafi. The blog dedicated to photography of the New York Times devotes two portfolios Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros.
- Two Photojournalists In Misrata, Libya (21/04/2011)
- Two photojournalists killed in Libya (20/04/2011)
- Photojournalist killed in Libya: reports (20/04/2011)
- TIME tribute to Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, photojournalists killed today in Libya (20/04/2011)
- Journalists to remain in Misrata despite Tim Hetherington's death (21/04/2011)
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