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

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 67382838
Wikidata: Q299513
Library of congress: n 88682055
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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