The first female secretary of state, Madeleine Albright—a cochair of the Genocide Prevention Task Force who supported the removal of UN peacekeepers in Rwanda, opposed the congressional recognition of the 1915 Armenian genocide, and defended of the deaths of more than half a million Iraqi children—died of cancer, and the flag at the McDonald’s outside the Guantánamo Bay naval base was flown at half-staff in her honor.
Weekly Review
Weekly Review
Weekly Review
The first female secretary of state, Madeleine Albright—a cochair of the Genocide Prevention Task Force who supported the removal of UN peacekeepers in Rwanda, opposed the congressional recognition of the 1915 Armenian genocide, and defended of the deaths of more than half a million Iraqi children—died of cancer, and the flag at the McDonald’s outside the Guantánamo Bay naval base was flown at half-staff in her honor.