Marie-Rose Armesto
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Marie-Rose, tant de vies en si peu de temps". Le Soir (in français). January 24, 2007.
- ↑ ""Marie-Rose n'était pas une journaliste comme les autres"" (in français). DH.be. June 6, 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "C'était une grande dame du reportage". La Libre (in français). January 24, 2007.
- ↑ "Une amie s'en est allée" (in français). European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center. January 23, 2007.
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- 1960 births
- 2007 deaths
- Belgian radio journalists
- Belgian writers in French
- Belgian women journalists
- Belgian women radio journalists
- Spanish emigrants to Belgium
- People from Terra de Lemos
- 20th-century Belgian journalists
- 21st-century Belgian journalists
- 21st-century Spanish women journalists
- 21st-century Spanish journalists
- Belgian television journalists
- Belgian women television journalists