The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo

Clea Koff 2004

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
genocide forensics war crimes testimony

Our Take

Koff exhumed mass graves for the UN tribunals — Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo — and wrote about what the bones say when the living will not or cannot speak. The science is meticulous; the emotional cost is present but contained, as it must be in a forensic context. A book about how bodies are made to disappear and how they can be made to testify. Evidence as justice.

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