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Jovanka Broz, former wife of dictator Josip Broz Tito, aged 88 has died in a Beldgrade hospital after suffering from cardiac arrest.
Broz was renowned for her fight against Yugoslavia's anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II prior to her marriage to the country's communist dictator, Josip Broz Tito.
An ethnic Serb, Broz briefly met Tito, an ethnic Croat, during World War II while she fought as a marksman in the first female brigade of the Partisans. But it was not until she was assigned to work with the communist leader after the war that their relationship developed.
Tito died in 1980, and Yugoslavia, a six-member federation, fell apart in early 1990s in a series of ethnic conflicts. Seven independent nations emerged after warfare that left 100,000 people dead and millions homeless.
According to ALJAZEERA, reacting to the news of Broz's death, Prime Minister Ivica Dacic of Serbia said, "With Broz's death, we are left without one of the last most reliable witnesses of our former country's history".
He said his government supported burying Broz at the same complex where Tito's tomb is located in a residential area of Belgrade.
