Marie-Rose Armesto

{{short description|Belgian journalist}}

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.{{cite news |url=http://archives.lesoir.be/marie-rose-tant-de-vies-en-si-peu-de-temps_t-20070124-009AWV.html |title=Marie-Rose, tant de vies en si peu de temps |newspaper=Le Soir |date=January 24, 2007|language=fr}}

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. They married in 1984.{{cite news |url=http://www.dhnet.be/archive/marie-rose-n-etait-pas-une-journaliste-comme-les-autres-51b7e1d6e4b0de6db99366ae |title="Marie-Rose n'était pas une journaliste comme les autres" |publisher=DH.be |date=June 6, 2012|language=fr}}

Armesto organized a human chain around the Berlaymont building in Brussels to call attention to ethnic cleansing in Bosnia.{{cite news |url=http://www.lalibre.be/culture/medias-tele/c-etait-une-grande-dame-du-reportage-51b8919fe4b0de6db9af1966 |title=C'était une grande dame du reportage |newspaper=La Libre |date=January 24, 2007|language=fr}} She publicized the plight of the missing in Chile and the victims of genocide in Rwanda. She considered Islamic terrorism the new fascism.{{cite web |url=http://www.esisc.org/publications/opinions/une-amie-sen-est-allee |title=Une amie s'en est allée |date=January 23, 2007 |publisher=European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center|language=fr}} In 2002, she published "Son mari a tué Massoud", based on an interview with the wife of one of Ahmad Shah Massoud's assassins.

Armesto died of cancer at the age of 46.