Kosovo: 'Madeleine's War'
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2018
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
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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| 1:10.0 | And on today's edition of Witness, we head to Central Europe in 1998 when war erupted in Kosovo. |
| 1:17.0 | After years of conflict in former Yugoslavia, the prospect of yet more atrocities led NATO allies to launch airstrikes |
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| 1:29.3 | that campaign. Former US Secretary of State Madeline Albright. |
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