[9][10], The bombing was followed on September 22, 2003, by another car bomb outside the Canal Hotel. And so, he commits to being with Carolina. She had replied that the special representative was proud that Iraqis could approach the UN building – unlike in the Green Zone, whose barriers were a half mile from the main offices. The documentary, premiering on HBO in May, concentrates on the fateful day when UN headquarters in Baghdad was bombed and Sergio struggled, unsuccessfully, to survive. I particularly liked a Tunisian security advisor who had served in the Balkans and was worried about terrorists targeting the UN. Aid workers, humanitarian workers, political UN workers - we've all become targets. Sergio de Mello, along with 20 other members of his UN staff, were killed on August 19, 2003. The UN is my family. The United Nations headquarters in Baghdad after a suicide bomber driving a truck packed with explosives blew up the building on Aug. 19, 2003. In February 2006, the TV programme FRONTLINE[14] presented an audiotape of Zarqawi—possibly the tape of April 2004—in which Zarqawi motivated the bombing of the UN building: U.N. = "protectors of Jews (given them Palestine so they can rape the land and humiliate our people) and friends of the (American) oppressors". Well, now Vieira de Mello has received the biopic treatment courtesy of Netflix, and that should put a deserving spotlight on the star of diplomacy who died in a terrorist bombing in Baghdad in 2003. I lost my left eye. I think the only thing that helped me recover is thinking of my fiancée at that time because she believed in me and we were planning our wedding. Mr. Vieira de Mello made the establishment of full human rights a major part of his mission to Iraq ever since he arrived at the beginning of June as Mr. Annan's Special Representative and insisted that full sovereignty should be restored to the Iraqi people as soon as possible following the occupation of the country by the United States-led coalition. He was 55 and was UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. And that doesn’t necessarily reflect only on those who we lost in Baghdad, but we have a responsibility I think to those friends and colleagues, and locals, lost in other places to this day – in Afghanistan, Mali, Somalia, Algeria, Libya, the list is endless. And I didn't know what to do because I was really afraid of making things worse. Mr. Annan immediately cancelled his holiday in Europe to return to UN Headquarters in New York, where he is expected to arrive tomorrow, and the Security Council held emergency consultations, condemning in the strongest terms the "terrorist criminal attack" and vowing to further intensify its efforts to help the people of Iraq. A heavy bomb destroys a significant part of the UN's headquarters in Baghdad, killing UN representative Sergio Vieira de Mello. Do not forget Bosnia, Kashmir, Afghanistan and Chechnya. And there was an Iraqi colleague in the office who'd been hit on the head and he was dazed and I sat with him and talked to him for a while. We will never win over everybody. 48 years (February 13, 1973) How long was Sergio de Mello in Iraq? UNTV Everything went dark. Sergio Vieira de Mello was killed shortly afterwards in the Baghdad bombing on 19 August, 2003, so one can only assume that he would have done everything possible to ensure that the UN be perceived as neutral and operating in the interests of the Iraqi people. The Iraq War and its Consequences is the first and only book that brings together more than 30 Nobel Peace laureates and eminent scholars to offer opinions, analyses and insights on the war that has drawn both widespread opposition and ... I remember there was quite a lot of concern that there could be a second bomb and it was important to get people to a place of safety. How we do things. My mind was in disbelief, and then I heard the screams of my colleagues, who were in the security office.". I really cannot believe that this thing happened to my family, to the place that I enjoyed working and to my colleagues that I consider my close family members. Moreover, the UN building in Baghdad also housed the World Bank. It was the first time that a neutral international humanitarian organization, had been deliberately targeted in such a way. That said, for me while there were no ensuing physical wounds - the one main scar is now almost undetectable - there was latent PTSD that was left unattended which was then triggered through another traumatic experience two years back. Every day, I would get ready and be excited to go to work to see what kind of a change I can contribute to and I can do to help my country to recover. Among them was our representative in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello. On 11 December 2008, the United Nations General Assembly made history when it adopted the Swedish sponsored GA Resolution A/63/139 on the Strengthening of the Coordination of Emergency Assistance of the United Nations,[21] that amongst other important humanitarian decisions, decided to designate 19 August as the World Humanitarian Day (WHD). I was sitting with my back to the window, on the side of the explosion. Netflix's new film Sergio is based on the true story of Sergio Vieira de Mello, a celebrated United Nations diplomat who was tragically killed in the bombing of UN headquarters in Baghdad on August 19, 2003. It took me more than 10 years to recover. Among us who were in Baghdad and who lived through that day, there was a different level of the psychological trauma. "We are shocked and outraged by the attack, which ultimately is aimed at the Iraqi people that the United Nations is trying to help," he said. She most recently served as Chief of Staff for Staffan de Mistura, the UN Special Envoy on Syria, and remains part of the UN’s “good offices” team to that country. It’s an international crime which will be prosecuted.”. The work of women humanitarians makes a “huge difference” to the lives of millions of women, men and children in urgent need, the United Nations chief said in his message for World Humanitarian Day. We lost some of our best and bravest staff. The conversations, which have been edited, provide insight into what happened that day, how it impacted them, and continues to impact the entire community that makes up the United Nations. I wasn't really that scared after that. On August 19th, 2003 the United Nations headquarters in Iraq at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, was hit with a truck bomb. What the world thinks of us. Carolina Larriera is a former UN diplomat, a survivor of the Iraq bombing in which her partner Sergio Vieira de Mello died, and former assistant professor at the Harvard Kennedy School. Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General, commented that the bombing would not stop the organization's efforts to rebuild Iraq, and said: "Nothing can excuse this act of unprovoked and murderous violence against men and women who went to Iraq for one purpose only: to help the Iraqi people recover their independence and sovereignty, and to rebuild their country as fast as possible, under leaders of their own choosing.". My wife [Mona Rishmawi] was also working for the UN. So the office was damaged but it did not collapse. And when I returned to Iraq from London, I immediately took a taxi and went to the building and I walked through it floor by floor. Wagner Moura plays Vieira de Mello in the film, which was directed by Greg Barker and sees Vieira de Mello looking back on his life as he lies trapped under the rubble . I feel terrible about that in a way because those bombings got much less publicity. UN officials, including Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, gather at UN headquarters in New York for a solemn ceremony to mark the fifth anniversary of the deadly bombing of the world body's headquarters in Baghdad. Found inside – Page 952003 August 19: Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 22 people and wounds over 100 (including the top UN ... The slain Sergio Vieira de Mello Sergio was a Brazilian diplomat who worked for the United Nations (UN) for over 30 ... Found insideThis volume is a unique account in Robinson's own words of her campaigns as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Close. Otherwise I dread to even think what my parents would have gone through had I not said – whatever you see, I’m ok, good bye. But by and large in my experience, the Middle East, and even in my own country, the population appreciates the attention and having someone who will hear their word and extend a helping hand. The Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights, Bertrand Ramcharan, standing in for Mr. Vieira de Mello during his tour of duty in Iraq, expressed deep shock and outrage over the "despicable act" against those whose only aim is to help the Iraqi people. He had no idea that there was a car bomb or a trailer that came into the building and detonated. The Jamestown Foundation considered Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad responsible for this attack. It took quite a while to realize and I was quite dazed from the blast, and I had, which I couldn’t feel at the time, injuries from the flying glass, including on my head and my shoulders. I was obviously not processing the gravity of the situation. I met Sergio many times, and followed closely his remarkable work in Timor-Leste. Another very sad thing about the Iraq bombing is that there have been subsequently other major bombings of the UN and other organizations. What we think of us. We've now become a target. Sergio Vieira de Mello isn't a name known to most Americans. At that time we had no idea what an IED was, what a car bomb is. [19], The suicide bombing of the United Nations in Baghdad drew overwhelming condemnation. [17] Other suspects included Baathists, militant Sunni and Shiite groups, organized crime, and tribal elements. On August 19th, 2003 the United Nations headquarters in Iraq at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, was hit with a truck bomb. Some of them were probably dead. There was that one moment of real fear. So I was sitting in the front row listening to this press conference. U.N. special representative Sergio Vieira de Mello was among those killed in the attack. The top United Nations envoy in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, was killed today when terrorists blew up the UN headquarters in Baghdad, killing at least 14 others and injuring dozens more in what Secretary-General Kofi Annan denounced as an inexcusable "act of unprovoked and murderous violence. Found insideThis is the first independent history of the UNHCR. UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers denounced the bombing as an act of senseless violence. The top United Nations envoy in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, was killed today when terrorists blew up the UN headquarters in Baghdad, killing at least 14 others and injuring dozens more in what Secretary-General Kofi Annan denounced as an inexcusable "act of unprovoked and murderous violence." Today we pay tribute to all those who died so tragically 15 years ago. Then-UN envoy to Iraq Sergio Vieira de Mello, a Brazilian, was among those who died when a truck bomb exploded at the Canal Hotel, which served as the UN operations center before and just after . August 29 : One or two car bombs, possibly detonated by suicide bombers, explode outside the Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf. Found inside – Page 71different communities in Iraq, and each one introduced me to a different side of Baghdad. ... It started on August 19, 2003, when a truck bomb outside the United Nations building killed the top UN envoy in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello. Your brain cannot react to what's going on. Blame was initially thought to lie with Ansar al-Islam, which was thought at the time to be Zarqawi's group. The U.N. has recognized the Americans as the masters of Iraq. I remember a lot of trash in the streets and partially flooded areas where there was no water system. Employees at the United Nations headquarters search through the rubble after an explosion, August. And unfortunately, that's become much more difficult. 2003: UN envoy dies in Baghdad bombing A massive bomb has wrecked the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, killing at least 17 people including the UN's chief envoy to Iraq, … Top UN envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello killed in terrorist . I was evacuated to Jordan, and then because of the severity of my injuries, I was again evacuated with my injured friend, Haider Sousa, to London. "The United Nations is in Iraq on a mission of peace, and for the reconstruction of the country and to support the Iraqi people. It was really dusty and I couldn't see anything. He had extensive Headquarters and field experience in humanitarian and peacekeeping operations, including in Bangladesh, Sudan, Cyprus, Mozambique, Peru and Lebanon. The second attack led to the withdrawal of some 600 UN international staff from Baghdad, along with employees of other aid agencies. The bombing erodes the perception among Coalition Forces that they are winning the fight against Iraqi resistance fighters. Before that, they gave Palestine as a gift to the Jews so they can rape the land and humiliate our people. Many have proclaimed the fundamentals of global security were altered by the September 11 terrorist attacks. Do these changes undercut or enhance the role of the United Nations? Rescue efforts to find many more people still thought to be trapped in the rubble work are . How old is Larriera? I often think about the colleagues we lost that day and the age they had many in their early 30s – there was a certain buzz around that dream team, and they embodied exactly the spirit of the UN flag – defying risk, rising above politics, speaking up for those whose voices were silenced, pushing against all odds. I was not supposed to be attending the meeting that my boss was having with [UN Humanitarian coordinator in Iraq] Ramiro Lopes da Silva across the corridor but exactly at 4:05 - the attack was at 4:15 - [my supervisor] Benon Sevan came back across the hallway and said, ‘I think you should attend this meeting’. He and 22 others died on Aug. 19, when a bomb exploded outside the United Nation's headquarters in Baghdad. As a result, one of my friends got killed. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan subsequently removes all international staff from Iraq. Their temporary offices at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq were bombed. Found inside – Page 5BAGHDAD BOMB , THE UN AND HUMANITARIAN ACTION Gil Loescher Lucky To Be Alive The bombing of the United Nations mission in Baghdad that killed Special Envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and more than twenty others on August 19 was the most ... Later I found things to do to help. Rumors, half-truths. En Route to Baghdad is a portrait of the peacekeeping career of former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Sergio Vieira de Mello, whose death in a 2003 Baghdad bombing attack became a tragic metaphor for the effort to bring stability to Iraq. There was a press conference in the Canal Hotel downstairs. Found inside – Page 257Sergio was one of the UN's most experienced officials and, unlike me, was a UN insider, coming up through the ranks. ... other UN staff members, during the Canal Hotel bombing—a suicide bomb attack on the UN headquarters in Baghdad in ... Found insideThis is Nada's story, but it is also an intimate chronicle of how a group of determined, ambitious men and women worked tirelessly in the heart of the CIA to ensure our nation's safety at home and abroad. I think that was the moment actually that I was most scared. Mr. Vieira de Mello only took his Iraqi mission as a short-term four-month assignment, so important did he and the Secretary-General consider the global fight for human rights and the urgency of his return to his post as High Commissioner. I think it's because a lot of debris and dust passed through the room. The UN should not be a target…The message should go out that you cannot attack the UN. Remembering Sergio Vieira de Mello Ten Years After the Attack on the UN in Baghdad 08/19/2013 10:05 am ET Updated Oct 19, 2013 August 19 is the tenth anniversary of the death of Sergio Vieira de Mello, High Commissioner for Human Rights and Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq. He was joined later by another American soldier – Staff Sergeant Andre Valentine – and the two men spent the next three hours trying to extricate the two survivors without benefit of any rescue equipment. It was actually carried out by al-Qaida in Iraq who then became ISIS. A partial view of the exterior of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad that was destroyed by a truck bomb on 19 August 2003. And then I remember being sort of trapped a bit but being able to free myself, finding in the dark some stairs, and then seeing a lot of what I suppose can only be described as walking wounded people. The bombing led to the death of UN representative Sérgio de Mello and 21 others. The Canal Hotel bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, on the afternoon of August 19, 2003, killed at least 22 people, including the United Nations' Special Representativ. Richard "Rick" Hooper, who was also killed in the bombing, joined the United Nations in 1990 and was on assignment with the U.N. in Baghdad as special assistant to the U.N. undersecretary general for political affairs. Khaled Mansour, an Egyptian who arrived to witness a scene of carnage, offering help, remembers seeing the bloody palm prints of the wounded, as they tried to escape, and a ticking watch on the wrist of a dead colleague emerging from under a sheet, as their body was carried away on a makeshift stretcher. With Sergio Vieira de Mello, Kofi Annan, Ghassan Salamé, Richard Holbrooke. But I was off looking for my colleagues who were sharing the room, the IT department office with me, and they were found under the rubble. The UN paid homage to the victims in New York, Amman, and Geneva Thursday. Among those killed was U.N. special envoy Sergio Vieira . On August 19th, 2003 a bomb exploded just outside the UN headquarters in Baghdad. Found inside – Page 123... a suicide bomber attacked the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad. The results were devastating. Twenty-two people were killed: fifteen United Nations officials - among them the UN special envoy, Sergio Vieira de Mello - two NGO ... So I was actually able to retrieve, my suit jacket was still on the back of the chair. The top United Nations envoy in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, a Brazilian . And then the lights went out so I was completely in the dark. A massive bomb has wrecked the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, killing at least 17 people including the UN's chief envoy to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello. Carolina had just hung up the phone and had placed her fingers on her computer to start writing a report, when her surroundings collapsed and disappeared. They’ve taken risks and whenever I go, I set aside time to talk with the ones I’ve known to see how they’re doing. At least 22 people lost their lives in this attack, including the UN's top official in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello. UN chief among dead in Baghdad bomb blast. Sergio Vieira de Mello. Mine back then was to return to work. Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}33°20′01″N 44°28′02″E / 33.33361°N 44.46722°E / 33.33361; 44.46722, 2003 terror attack against the United Nations in Baghdad, Iraq. The United Nations held a wreath-laying ceremony Monday to commemorate its 22 staffers killed in the 2003 attack in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. She was the human rights and gender adviser to Sergio [Vieira de Mello], so at that point, my thought was to see if she was ok. And I heard her voice fairly early on calling my name, so we found each other quite quickly. It’s 15 years later and I often think they would now be around their 40s and 50s, and the loss of potential, of people who believed in what they were doing, finding the sense of possible where no-one else could or would, the “UN blue” recruits as I call them. It's Baghdad, 2003 16:17:21 hs. A look at the life and work of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Sergio Vieira de Mello, and the rescue operation when he was trapped and injured by a bomb explosion at UN headquarters in Baghdad. The explosion occurred while Martin Barber, director of the UN's Mine Action Service (UNMAS), was holding a press conference. Al-Kurdi was captured by U.S. forces in 2005, judged and sentenced to death by an Iraqi court and executed by hanging on July 3, 2007. So three floors were all rooms of ghosts. Humanitarian support is now entirely conducted inside the country by NGOs, under UN remote supervision. Found insideTraces the political career of the United Nations humanitarian who lost his life in the 2003 terrorist attack on the UN Headquarters in Iraq, citing his role in the peace negotiations in post-invasion Lebanon and the cease-fire talks in ... On 19 August 2003, a suicide bomber drove a truck full of explosives to the United Nations headquarters in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, Iraq, and blew it up, killing 22 people – among them Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the head of the UN mission in Iraq. I had said to my friend that things seemed pretty relaxed. Found inside – Page 163The JTJ has been blamed for some of the most deadly attacks in Iraq, such as the United Nations headquarters bombing in Baghdad that killed 23 people, including the UN envoy, Sergio Vieira de Mello; the Karbala and Baghdad bombings in ... "This senseless attack is a setback to the UN's humanitarian efforts to aid Iraqis who have been through decades of suffering.". We all have our own coping mechanisms. Is this like, is this for real? The ones that I often think about and I’ve been back to Iraq often after the bombing, are our national staff. Found insideThe Prince of the Marshes tells the story of Stewart’s year. Whatever America's commitment to Holocaust remembrance (embodied in the presence of the Holocaust Museum on the Mall in Washington, D.C.), the United States has never intervened to stop genocide. This book is an effort to understand why. The Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, in the afternoon of August 19, 2003, killed at least 22 people, including the United Nations' Special Representative in Iraq Sérgio Vieira de Mello, and wounded over 100.The blast targeted the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq created just 5 days earlier. I remember I was the last one to be stitched up and wearing a t-shirt with “Operation Iraqi Freedom”; it was after the Baghdad curfew and the Americans suggested I stay overnight but I would have none of it…I happened to stay at the by now haunted Cedar Hotel because it was the hotel where Sergio and his team were staying. The holi day was created as an incentive for people to carry out charitable acts and provide humanitarian assistance to the needy, as de Mello and his . He was in 2003 working for IRIN, which at the time was affiliated with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). "Powerful . . . well-documented, well-written, and most informative, ("Calculated Kindness") is . . . for all Americans who wish to better understand the often competing policies and principles that have regulated immigrations practices in ... Ten years ago the headquarters of the United Nations in Baghdad was bombed - a shock attack widely seen as a turning point for the . We honour their sacrifice. Toutes les commandes sont préparées à la demande et généralement expédiées sous 24 heures dans le monde entier. But on this day, August 19, I do not know why I left my job early. The film, which debuted at Sundance in January and hits Netflix April 17, follows Vieira de Mello, played by Wagner Moura ( Narcos ), from East Timor to Baghdad as he struggles to carry out the U . And I had some familiarity with my injuries – I’m a medical doctor by training – and the attitude, how you decide to develop your mindset after that. We were hoping that his team and himself specifically will make a big difference. I woke up after three days of losing consciousness, and found myself in the middle of nowhere in a tent. Found insideWith contributions from experts in the field, this book examines the impact of security issues on six of the world's largest aid donors, as well as on key crosscutting issues such as gender equality and climate change. 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