Nato intervenes in Kosovo

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🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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When war broke out in Kosovo in 1998, Nato intervened with air strikes to prevent atrocities by Serbian forces. The late Madeleine Albright was then the US Secretary of State and the main proponent of action. In 2018, she explained to Rebecca Kesby why she argued for military intervention, and how it was motivated, in part, by her family's experiences as Jews in Czechoslovakia during World War Two.

PHOTO: An F-16 jet at Nato's Aviano base in Italy during the air strikes on Kosovo (Getty Images)

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0:40.0	Today we're going back to Central Europe in 1998 when war erupted in Kosovo.
0:47.0	After years of conflict in the former Yugoslavia,
0:50.0	the prospect of more atrocities led NATO allies to launch airstrikes against
0:55.8	Serbian forces to end the violence. In 2018 Rebecca Kespi spoke to the
1:01.6	former US Secretary of State, the late Madeline Albright.
1:05.7	She was the woman behind the campaign.
1:08.3	When people asked me what I'm proudest of that I did, it was Kosovo.
1:12.2	I thought we can't stand by. This was genocide to a great extent.
1:17.0	Czech-born Madeline Albright became America's 64th Secretary of State or Foreign Minister in 1997 under President Bill Clinton.
1:25.8	She was the first woman to hold that office.
1:28.8	We are not going to stand by and watch the Serbian authorities do in Kosovo what they can no longer
1:35.5	get away with doing in Bosnia.
1:38.2	The early 90s had brought horrific violence to other areas of former Yugoslavia. In Croatia and Bosnia,
1:45.0	thousands of people were killed. There were concentration camps,
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