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Witness History, Witness History, Kosovo: 'Madeleine's War'

Witness History

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Kosovo: 'Madeleine's War'


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July 6, 2018

11 minutes

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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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