Marie-Rose Armesto (1960 – 23 January 2007) was a Spanish-born Belgian journalist. She was associate editor-in-chief for the Belgian television chain RTL-TVI.[1]
Armesto was born in Saviñao in Galicia and came to Belgium at the age of eight, first broadcasting in 1982 on the Radio Contact radio station. She joined RTL-TVI in September 1987, eventually becoming head reporter for the chain in partnership with Jean-Pierre Martin.[1] They married in 1984.[2]
Armesto organized a human chain around the Berlaymont building in Brussels to call attention to ethnic cleansing in Bosnia.[3] She publicized the plight of the missing in Chile and the victims of genocide in Rwanda. She considered Islamic terrorism the new fascism.[4] In 2002, she published "Son mari a tué Massoud", based on an interview with the wife of one of Ahmad Shah Massoud's assassins.[3]
Armesto died of cancer at the age of 46.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Marie-Rose, tant de vies en si peu de temps". Le Soir (in French). January 24, 2007.
- ^ ""Marie-Rose n'était pas une journaliste comme les autres"" (in French). DH.be. June 6, 2012.
- ^ a b "C'était une grande dame du reportage". La Libre (in French). January 24, 2007.
- ^ "Une amie s'en est allée" (in French). European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center. January 23, 2007.
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