A trip by six young French bloggers to the revolution in Libya turned to tragedy after one was left paralyzed by a stray bullet in the shell-shocked city of Misrata.
"We didn't come here to cover a war, we just wanted to see a revolution like the one in Tunisia," one of the bloggers told reporters Friday, saying that they had expected the revolt to come to a swift end with the fall of Moamer Kadhafi. The four men and two women travelled by boat in late March to Misrata, where fighting quickly intensified after Kadhafi's forces launched a deadly crackdown on protests inspired by regime-changing movements in Tunisia and Egypt.
The bloggers, aged between 24 and 26 who had met while studying in the northwestern French city of Rennes, decided to stay on to bear witness to the conflict because they said initially so few foreign reporters were in the city. For weeks they they posted video images on the internet and filed blogs and reports to the French news website Rue89 about Misrata, a western city where hundreds have died since Kadhafi forces laid siege to it nearly two months ago.
But then a week ago one blogger, Baptiste Dubonnet, was struck down by a stray bullet.
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