| LC control no. | n 88682055 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Des Forges, Alison Liebhafsky |
| Variant(s) | Forges, Alison Liebhafsky Des Des Forges, Alison DesForges, Alison Liebhafsky, Alison B. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1942-08-20 |
| Death date | 2009-02-12 |
| Place of birth | Schenectady (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Buffalo (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Human rights Genocide--Rwanda--History--20th century |
| Profession or occupation | Human rights workers Historians |
| Found in | nuc88-140906: Her Defeat is the only bad news, 1972 (hdg. on WU rept.: Des Forges, Alison Liebhafsky; usage: Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges) 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) |
| Associated language | eng |
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