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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Balkans split over Madeleine Albright's wartime legacy

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

A monument in Kosovo, a snake named after her in Serbia. Madeleine Albright was either loved or hated in the Balkans for her pivotal role during the southern European region's wars of the 1990s.

Following the former U.S. secretary of state's death on Wednesday at age 84, how her legacy is viewed from the Balkans mostly depends on whether one was on the receiving or triggering end of the bloody breakup of the former Yugoslavia.

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