Clea Koff
British-born forensic anthropologist and author known for her work exhuming mass graves in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia for UN tribunals; author of the memoir The Bone Woman and founder of the Missing Persons Identification Resource Center in Los Angeles.
Books
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1. The Bone Woman
A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
A young forensic anthropologist recounts her deployments with United Nations teams to Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo in the late 1990s, exhuming mass graves to identify victims and gather evidence for war-crimes tribunals. Through vivid fieldwork scenes, she confronts the physical dangers, political obstacles, and emotional toll of documenting genocide while insisting on scientific rigor and respect for the dead. The narrative explores the ethics of bearing witness, the camaraderie of her multicultural team, and the fragile hope that truth and accountability can honor the victims and help the living.
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