RIP Alison Des Forges
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:54 pm
http://www.economist.com/obituary/displ ... d=13137097Mrs Des Forges stuck to the basics, such as the right not to be murdered.
TWO plane crashes bookmarked Alison Des Forges’s life. The first was nearly 15 years ago, when a luxury jet carrying two African presidents was shot down by missiles over Rwanda. The second was last week, when a cramped commuter plane crashed in icy weather near Buffalo, New York, killing 50 people. The first crash served as the pretext for the swiftest genocide in history. The second silenced its most dogged witness, a tiny American lady with silver hair.