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Author Koff, Clea.

Title The bone woman : a forensic anthropologist's search for truth in the mass graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo / Clea Koff
Edition First edition
Published New York : Random House, [2004]
©2004

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Description x, 271 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents Before -- Pt. 1. Kibuye : January 6-February 27, 1996 -- 1. The blood's long gone -- 2. They killed their friends as if they didn't know them -- 3. The grave -- 4. The man with the prosthetic leg -- 5. "Thank you very much for your work" -- 6. Afterlife -- Pt. 2. Kigali : June 3-June 24, 1996 -- 7. "Everyone knows a genocide happened here" -- 8. The hospital for the dead people -- 9. Rwanda, live -- Pt. 3. Bosnia : July 4-August 29, 1996 -- 10. Almost picnic -- 11. I'm just a worker here -- 12. The morgue -- 13. Double vision -- Pt. 4. Croatia : August 30-September 30, 1996 -- 14. Seekers of the living -- 15. The translator -- 16. Voices of the dead -- 17. The mothers -- Pt. 5. Kosovo : April 2-June 3, 2000, and July 3-July 23, 2000 -- 18. "What's Ick-tee?" -- 19. The grandfather -- 20. The boy with the marbles -- 21. The Swede at the morgue -- 22. Spiritual sustenance -- 23. The old man's third bullet -- After
Summary "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, California, was one of sixteen scientists chosen by the UN International Criminal Tribunal to go to Rwanda to unearth the physical evidence of genocide and crimes against humanity. The Bone Woman is Koff's personal account of that mission and the six subsequent missions she undertook - to Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo - on behalf of the UN."--BOOK JACKET
Notes ON ORDER [PP] 13/05/2004 BI
Subject Koff, Clea., 1972-
Koff, Clea.
Forensic anthropology -- Rwanda.
Forensic anthropology -- Former Yugoslav republics.
Human body -- Identification.
Genocide -- Rwanda.
Genocide -- Former Yugoslav republics.
LC no. 2004041213
ISBN 1400060648 cloth alkaline paper