The New Statesman-Hero of Our Time
By Carne Ross
Published in The New Statesman, 13 March 2008
The death of Sergio Vieira de Mello in a suicide bombing in Baghdad in 2003 shocked and saddened the world. This charismatic UN diplomat, idealistic yet also very practical, seemed one of the best hopes for our unstable times. But does his biography misread the conclusions to be drawn from his life and work?
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