In Bayeux, they award an annual Prix Bayeux to war reporters who distinguished themselves with striking photos of human suffering in the war zones of today.
There is a Reporters Memorial in the city, right next to the British War Cemetery and the Museum of the Battle of Normandy. The memorial is a long alley of white marble stelas with the names of journalists who died after the war, one stela for each year.
Whenever I am in Bayeux, I always go to the 2006 obelisk to say a quiet prayer in memory of my colleague, the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was murdered in Moscow on 7 October 2006 for her reporting of human rights abuses in Chechnya.
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