Clea Koff

I chose to write my bio-sketch on Clea Koff, she is a forensic anthropologist and author who worked for the United Nations as well as for the Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the tribal for the formal Yugoslavia. She was born in 1972 in London, England to Msindo Mwinyipembe and David Koff. Her father was American and Jewish, and her mother was Tanzanian. Both of her parents were documentary filmmakers who were focused on many issues such as human rights and traveled the world for their work; taking Clea and her brother along with them. Clea was able to spend her childhood all over the world in places such as various states in the United States, Somalia, England, Kenya, and Tanzania. She was a brilliant student and as she grew older she had already decided that she wanted to study Osteology. She was able to receive her bachelor’s degree at Stanford University in Anthropology and her master’s degree at the…

The Impact of the Rwandan Genocide In 1994, the tiny country of Rwanda was disrupted with brutal violence, and saw the killing of nearly one million people in a period of one-hundred days. It was a genocide, the mass murder of Africans that resided in Rwanda. The aftermath of the loss left survivors traumatized and foreigners felt ashamed in their inability to intervene in the catastrophe. During the massacre, Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire, was appointed as force commander to the United…