by Clea Koff
The Bone Woman by Clea Koff In the spring of 1994, Rwanda was the scene of the first acts since World War II to be legally defined as genocide. Two years later, Clea Koff, a twenty-three-year-old forensic anthropologist analyzing prehistoric skeletons in the safe confines of Berkeley, Californi...
TITLE: The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo AUTHOR: Clea Koff PUBLICATION DATE: 2005 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN-13: 9780812968859 _______________________ DESCRIPTION: "In 1994, Rwanda was the scene of the fi...
Some 15+ years ago, towards the end of the years when I was practicing law in the U.S., I was asked to represent a young woman from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC, the former Zaire) in an immigration case. My client was a Tutsi, in her twenties; a shy, slender young woman with delicate featu...
In 1994, Rwanda was the scene of the first acts since World War II to be legally defined as genocide. Two years later, Clea Koff, a twenty-three-year-old forensic anthropologist, left the safe confines of a lab in Berkeley, California, to serve as one of sixteen scientists chosen by the United Natio...
I was expecting to invalidate a lot of the complaints about Clea Koff's book, but I was more and more disappointed as the book progressed. Gone was the wisdom of her experience, missing was the self-discovery and introspection, only barely existent was her experience of the people around her who had...
The experiences of a forensic anthropologist working for ICTY and ICTR described in a very personal manner. I felt strangely relieved seeing thah we had both asked ourselves the same question: what if I had been in the middle of all that killing and destruction? (Still wondering about the answer tho...
Explains what I want to do with part of my life.
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