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Former assistant secretary general of the United Nations Diego Arria takes us inside the U.N. Security Council as he shares his experiences on bringing Slobodan Milošević 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. As the West punished Iraq and Libya, it stood by haplessly as Bosnians were violated and raped. This sent a message to the Muslim world, Arria says, that helped to motivate acts of terror against the West.