A heroine for human rights

Tragically, Alison Des Forges died last week, in the Buffalo plane crash. She was a brilliant and inexhaustible campaigner for human rights, and probably did more than anyone else to raise awareness of the Rwandan genocide and the need for true justice in its aftermath. Des Forges was particularly controversial for acting as a professional thorn-in-the-side of Rwandan leader Paul Kagame, adamantly insisting that the atrocities committed by the RPF, while smaller in scale than those of the Hutu Interhamwe et al, should not go unpunished.
Read Kenneth Roth (director of Human Rights Watch) 's tribute to her here.