Des Forges, Alison Liebhafsky
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Name (Latin)
Des Forges, Alison Liebhafsky
Other forms of name
Des Forges, Alison
DesForges, Alison
Liebhafsky, Alison B
Forges, Alison Liebhafsky Des
Date of birth
1942-08-20
Date of death
2009-02-12
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Genocide--Rwanda--History--20th century
Human rights
Occupation
Historians
Human rights workers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Her "Leave none to tell the story," c1999:t.p. (Alison Des Forges)
- Longman, T. Zaire, attacked by all sides, 1997:p. 14 (Alison DesForges)
- New York times WWW site, Feb. 17, 2009(in obituary published Feb. 13, 2009: Alison L. Des Forges; b. Alison B. Liebhafsky, Aug. 20, 1942, Schenectady, N.Y.; m. Roger V. Des Forges; killed Thursday [Feb. 12, 2009] in airplane crash near Buffalo, aged 66; human rights activist and historian who tried to call the world's attention to the looming genocide in Rwanda in 1994 and who later wrote what is considered the definitive account of the eventual slaughter of more than 500,000 Rwandans)
- nuc88-140906: Her Defeat is the only bad news, 1972(hdg. on WU rept.: Des Forges, Alison Liebhafsky; usage: Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges)
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Alison Des Forges
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Wikipedia description:
Alison Des Forges (née Liebhafsky; August 20, 1942 – February 12, 2009) was an American historian and human rights activist who specialized in the African Great Lakes region, particularly the 1994 Rwandan genocide. At the time of her death, she was a senior advisor for the African continent at Human Rights Watch. She died in a plane crash on February 12, 2009.
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