Alison Des Forges
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Gender | Female |
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Date of birth | August 20,1942 |
Zodiac sign | Leo |
Born | Schenectady |
New York | |
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Died | Clarence Center |
New York | |
United States | |
Parents | Herman A. Liebhafsky |
Awards | MacArthur Fellowship |
Education | Yale University |
Radcliffe College | |
Books | Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda |
Defeat Is the Only Bad News: Rwanda Under Musinga, 1896–1931 | |
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ID | 3785571 |
Alison Des Forges Life story
Alison Des Forges 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 12 February 2009.