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© Reuters. FILEPHOTO: Madeleine Albright (former Secretary of State), speaks ahead of an interview at Washington, U.S.A. on November 28, 2016. Picture taken November 28, 2016. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

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By Diane Bartz

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) –Madeleine Albright was born in Czechoslovakia and fled Nazism as a young girl. She rose to be the first woman U.S. secretary-of-state, becoming a feminist icon in pop culture in later years.

Albright was a hard-talking diplomat who served in an administration that was reluctant to get involved in two of the most significant foreign policy crises in 1990s: the genocides at Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

We are deeply sorry to report that Dr. Madeleine K. Albright (64th U.S. Secretary of State) has died earlier today. She was the first female to have held that post. According to the family, cancer was the cause.

Albright, the U.S. ambassador at the United Nations, was a strong advocate for the Serbs of Bosnia. Many of President Bill Clinton’s senior foreign policy advisors vividly remember how the United States got stuck in Vietnam, and they were determined not make the same mistakes in the Balkans.

United States collaborated with NATO to conduct airstrikes, which forced the end of war after it had lasted for over three years.

Albright’s experiences as a refugee inspired her to advocate for America to become a powerful superpower. James O’Brien who was Albright’s senior adviser during the Bosnian conflict, said that she wanted “muscular internationalism”.

Once, she upset a Pentagon chief asking why 1,000,000 soldiers and civilians were kept under arms.

O’Brien stated that Albright supported a United Nations tribunal for war crimes. This helped to put in place the Bosnian Serb and Serbian leaders who were involved in that conflict.

Albright, a plainspoken man, took a strong line regarding a 1996 incident in which Cuban fighter jets shot down two American-based aircrafts. He said: “This was not cojones. This is cowardice.”

Albright was born in Czechoslovakia in 1938. Her nomination to be the first woman secretary-of-state was unanimously approved in 1997. From 1997 to 2001, she was the first woman secretary of state.

In Kosovo, the United States learned from the painful lessons of Bosnia and Rwanda. Washington witnessed the Serbs take up a plan to ethnically cleanse the ethnic Albanians. NATO responded by launching an 11-week long campaign of air attacks in 1999, which extended to Belgrade.

Albright was the most high-ranking American official to visit North Korea’s secretive Communist-run nation.

Albright was an icon for a new generation of women who sought inspiration and opportunity in their search for respect and equality in the workplace after the Clinton years ended and the 1990s. Albright loved to say, “There is a special place at hell for women who do not help one another.”

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