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The Bone Woman

The Bone Woman

by Clea Koff (Author), Clea Koff (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

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Synopsis

To prosecute charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, one fact that must be established absolutely: are the bodies those of ordinary people, rather than combatants? Forensic anthropologists must answer this question by proving precisely who the victims were and how they were killed. In 1996, Clea Koff, a 23-year-old graduate student was sent to Rwanda by the U.N. to work with a small team exhuming victims of the genocide. The Bone Woman is a mesmerizing account of her four years of gruelling investigations into these, and other, murderous events - what she found in the Rwandan hills and in Srebrenica; how it affected her; and who went to trial based on evidence she collected - events which transformed her from an idealistic student to a war crimes veteran.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 336
 Edition: Main - print on demand
 Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 10 Mar 2005
ISBN 10: 1843541394
ISBN 13: 9781843541394

Media Reviews
It may be that this is the ultimate memoir of the post-Cold War decade... a hugely important book -- Alec Russell * Daily Telegraph *
Clea Koff has given some of the best years of her life to digging up mutilated bodies and coping with the inevitable emotional toll of such intimacy with death. ... The Bone Woman eschews the outrage to which she would have been entitled, and is the more powerful for it. -- Giles Whittell * The Times *
Offers a fascinating insight into the role of forensic anthropology in investigating human rights abuses... despite the extraordinary depravity of the crimes detailed in its pages, The Bone Woman is a humane, hopeful and involving book -- Phil Whitaker * Guardian *
That what Clea Koff does is necessary and excellent is not in need of saying: it is impossible to reach the end of The Bone Woman without great admiration for her tenacity and stoicism. -- Caroline Moorehead * Independent *
Author Bio
Clea Koff is a forensic anthropologist and author. Born in 1972, she was a member of the first international forensic team brought together by the United Nations to investigate evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity, commencing in Rwanda in 1996 when she was 23 years old - the youngest member of the very first team to arrive in Kiguye. She subsequently participated in missions in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. The Bone Woman has been translated into eleven languages and her novel Freezing was published in 2011.