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Alison Des Forges, 66, Human Rights Advocate, Dies

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Alison Des Forges, 66, Human Rights Advocate, Dies By SEWELL CHAN and DENNIS HEVESI Published: February 13, 2009 NY Times Alison L. Des Forges, a 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, was among the passengers killed Thursday when Continental Airlines Flight 3407 crashed near Buffalo. She was 66 and lived in Buffalo. Her death was confirmed by Human Rights Watch, the New York-based advocacy group; Dr. Des Forges was senior adviser for its Africa division for nearly 20 years. Although she lived in Buffalo, Dr. Des Forges (pronounced deh-FORZH) spent much of her adult life in Rwanda and the Great Lakes region of Africa...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 14, 2009 (boomark / email).