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Kosovo: 'Madeleine's War'

When war broke out in Kosovo in 1998, Nato intervened with air strikes. Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright explains why she argued for military action.

When war broke out in Kosovo in 1998, Nato intervened with air-strikes. US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was the main proponent for military action. She explains to Rebecca Kesby why she argued for action, and tells her own remarkable story, from a childhood in Czechoslovakia to the highest political office ever held by a woman in the United States at the time.

(Photo: Madeleine Albright. Credit US Government)

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Fri 6 Jul 2018 07:50GMT

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