Marie-Rose Armesto, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Marie-Rose Armesto

Belgian journalist

Date of Birth: 19-Mar-1960

Place of Birth: O Saviñao, Galicia, Spain

Date of Death: 23-Jan-2007

Profession: journalist

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Marie-Rose Armesto

  • Marie-Rose Armesto (1960 – January 23, 2007) was a Spanish-born Belgian journalist.
  • She was associate editor-in-chief for the Belgian television chain RTL-TVI.She was born in Saviñao in Galicia and came to Belgium at the age of eight.
  • She first worked in broadcasting in 1982 on the Radio Contact radio station.
  • Armesto joined RTL-TVI in September 1987, eventually becoming head reporter for the chain in partnership with Jean-Pierre Martin; the pair married in 1984.Not content to simply report the news, she organized a human chain around the Berlaymont building in Brussels to call attention to ethnic cleansing in Bosnia.
  • She showed the Belgian public the plight of the missing in Chile and the victims of genocide in Rwanda.
  • Armesto saw terrorism which claims Islam for its inspiration as the new fascism.In 2002, she published Son mari a tué Massoud based on an interview with the wife of one of the assassins of Ahmad Shah Massoud.Armesto died of cancer at the age of 46.

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