Show of the week: Sergio
HBO's documentary chronicles Sérgio Vieira de Mello’s remarkable career as a United Nations diplomat. Vieira de Mello and 20 members of his staff were killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq in August 2003.
A charismatic international campaigner for peace, United Nations diplomat Sérgio Vieira de Mello was working as the secretary-general’s special representative in Iraq when he and 20 members of his staff were killed in the August 2003 Canal Hotel bombing in Baghdad. This documentary chronicles Vieira de Mello’s remarkable career—he did important work in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and East Timor, and some considered him a prospective secretary-general. It also delivers a gripping and agonizing account of the suicide bombing that took his life. Thursday, May 6, at 8 p.m., HBO
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