Alison Des Forges, rest in peace
Jeff Sharlett: Among the dead of Continental Flight 3407 in Buffalo was a 66-year-old historian and activist named Alison Des Forges. In a short essay about the Rwandan genocide for The Revealer in 2004, I referred to Des Forges’ 1999 book on the subject, Leave None to Tell the Story, as “a painful masterwork.