The human rights community is mourning the death of Alison Des Forges, who was killed in the plane crash near Buffalo, New York, a few days ago.
Alison was a senior advisor to the Africa division of Human Rights Watch (HRW). She was considered the world's leading expert on the 1994 Rwanda genocide and its aftermath, and a report she published with HRW on the subject is considered the definitive work on that conflict.
Alison worked so hard at exposing human rights abuses in Rwanda and trying to bring about change that the Rwandan government recently banned her from the country.
The world is a better place for her hard work and dedication to exposing, ending, and prosecuting human rights abuses. She will be missed.
>> Read more about Alison on the Human Rights Watch site.
>> Read Alison's definitive report about the Rwanda genocide.
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