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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 Nations to unearth the physical evidence of the Rwandan genocide. Over the next four years, Koff's grueling investigations took her across geography synonymous with some of the worst crimes of the twentieth century. The Bone Woman is Koff's unflinching, riveting account of her seven UN missions to Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, and Rwanda, as she shares what she saw, how it affected her, who was prosecuted based on evidence she found, and what she learned about the world. Yet even as she recounts the hellish nature of her work and the heartbreak of the survivors, she imbues her story with purpose, humanity, and a sense of justice. A tale of science in service of human rights, The Bone Woman is, even more profoundly, a story of hope and enduring moral principles.

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Clea Koff is a forensic anthropologist and author born in England and raised in Tanzania, Kenya, and the US. She was a member of the first international team brought together by the UN in 1996 to investigate evidence of war crimes, commencing in Rwanda after the 1994 genocide. She also worked for the UN International Criminal Tribunal in Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo. The Bone Woman, her memoir, was published in 2004 and sold in translation to 13 countries. She holds a BA from Stanford University, an MA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and now writes fiction. Clea Koff is a forensic anthropologist and author born in England and raised in Tanzania, Kenya, and the US. She was a member of the first international team brought together by the UN in 1996 to investigate evidence of war crimes, commencing in Rwanda after the 1994 genocide. She also worked for the UN International Criminal Tribunal in Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo. The Bone Woman, her memoir, was published in 2004 and sold in translation to 13 countries. She holds a BA from Stanford University, an MA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and now writes fiction.

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