Diego E. Arria is the former assistant secretary general of the United Nations. In this talk, he shares his experiences bringing Slobodan Miloševic to justice. Arria explains how the most televised and photographed tragedy in the 20th century was able to unfold in the middle of Europe for years without an international response. Comparing the international community's failure to act against the Serbs in Bosnia with its enthusiastic effort to stop Saddam Hussein in Kuwait, he exposes the heartbreaking truth - having no oil, the lives of Bosnians were not in the Security Council's interest.

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Diego Arria is former special advisor to the secretary general of the United Nations, former Venezuelan ambassador to the UN, and former chairman of the UN Security Council. He is known for initiating the eponymous “Arria formula," a consultation process that affords members of the Security Council the opportunity to hear persons in a confidential, informal setting. He was a witness in the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, where he testified that the defendant and the Serbian authorities were aware of the genocide against the Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica from 1993 to 1995.