Syria Unrest: Honoring Journalists Killed on Duty (PHOTOS)

Two journalists, American Marie Colvin and Frenchman Remi Ochlik, were among dozens killed Wednesday as Syrian forces bombarded the rebel city of Homs for the 19th straight day.

Activists have increased calls for a truce to allow humanitarian aid.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the security forces killed at least 68 people across Syria. The overall death toll of violence since March 2011 has reached 7,636.

The Syrian unrest has taken the lives of many journalists, including Colvin and Ochlik.

Let us honor their sacrifices and pay tribute to those journalists who died telling the world the truth of the many atrocities that happen all around the world.

Journalist Marie Colvin poses for a photograph with Libyan rebels (unseen) in Misrata in this June 4, 2011 file photograph. Two Western journalists were killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs on February 22, 2012 when shells hit the house they were staying in, opposition activists and witnesses said. They were named as Marie Colvin, an American working for Britain's Sunday Times, and French photographer Remi Ochlik.

Undated picture of French photographer Remi Ochlik. French photographer Remi Ochlik and American correspondent Marie Colvin were killed on February 22, 2012 in the besieged Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday when rockets fired by government forces hit the house they were staying in, opposition activists and witnesses said. At least two other journalists and possibly more were wounded in the attack, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said. Colvin and Ochlik were both prize-winning veterans of wars in the Middle East, Asia and elsewhere.

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Shadid, one of the four New York Times journalists, who had been captured by Libyan forces while covering the conflict there, poses at the Turkish embassy in Tripoli, in this undated handout released March 21, 2011. Shadid, who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his coverage of the Iraq war and its aftermath, died while reporting in Syria on February 16, 2012, after an apparent asthma attack, the newspaper said. He was 43.

French journalist Gilles Jacquier is seen in this undated picture released by France Televisions January 11, 2012. Cameraman Jacquier was among several people killed in Syria's central city of Homs on Wednesday, becoming the first Western reporter to have died in 10 months of unrest in the country. "France 2 television has just learned with a great deal of sorrow the death of reporter Gilles Jacquier in Homs," France 2 said in a statement, adding it did not have details of the circumstances of his death.
Al-Sayed, a videographer, died while covering Syrian forces' bombardment of the city of Homs, news reports said. The central city was under the 18th consecutive day of intense shelling by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.

Al-Sayed, a videographer whose work appeared on a live streaming site and was picked up by international and regional news organizations, died at a local hospital soon after being wounded on February 21, 2012. Al-Sayed had transmitted video of events in the Homs neighborhood of Baba Amro to the live streaming site Bambuser, and had uploaded hundreds of videos to his YouTube channel. His footage was used by several news organizations, news reports said. (Picture was Not Available)