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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Owen Bowcott

Françoise Hampson obituary

26 October 2017 Françoise Hampson, Member of the Commission of Inquiry on Burundi, briefs journalists. Commission of Inquiry on Burundi Addresses Press
Françoise Hampson was a member of the UN commission of inquiry on Burundi in 2017. Photograph: UN Photo/Rick Bajornas

After Nato jets bombed Serbian state radio and television (RTS) in Belgrade in 1999, killing 16 technicians and editors, it was a British lawyer, Françoise Hampson, who took on the relatives’ quest for legal redress.

Hampson, who has died aged 74 of lung cancer, had the unusual distinction of being a prominent expert in both human rights and international humanitarian law – the rules of armed conflict.

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