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Former top U.N. refugee official, Japan's Sadako Ogata, dies at 92

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata gestures during a news conference in Geneva. [Reuters]

Sadako Ogata, a former top U.N. refugee official known for donning a helmet and flak jacket on trips into the field, has died, Japanese public broadcaster NHK said, without stating the cause. She was 92.

Ogata’s tenure as U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees during the 1990s coincided with a genocide in Rwanda and ethnic conflict in the former Yugoslavia.

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