Clea Koff is a British-born American forensic anthropologist who worked several years for the United Nations

United Nations

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 International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda is an international court established in November 1994 by the United Nations Security Council in Resolution 955 in order to judge people responsible for the Rwandan Genocide and other serious violations of international law in Rwanda, or by Rwandan...

 (ICTR; 2 missions) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

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 (5 missions) in Rwanda

Rwanda

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, Bosnia

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, Croatia

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, Serbia

Serbia

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, and in 2000 in Kosovo

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Koff, who is mixed-race and Jewish, was born in 1973 to a Tanzanian mother, Msindo Mwinyipembe, and an American

United States

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 father, David Koff

David Koff

David Richard Koff is an award-winning maker of documentary films, social activist, writer, researcher, and editor. His interest in social and economic justice has shaped a career largely spent exploring human rights, colonialism, resistance movements, racism, labor unions, and the oppression and...

, both documentary film

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makers focused on human rights

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 issues. Her parents took her and her older brother, Kimera, with them around the world.