A personal view by Major General Lewis MacKenzie, military strategist and Commander of UN forces for 30 years, who presents a cogent story of the bungling behind the failed UN peacekeeping missions to Somalia and former Yugoslavia. The former Commander in Chief of the Protection Force in Sarajevo offers the shocking analysis that the war in Bosnia was caused by arrogance, laziness and bad judgement by the United Nations.
In the first of a two-part documentary General MacKenzie, who resigned his command in order to speak out, offers an incisive insight into the reasons why the UN peacekeeping effort has gone so badly wrong as the international community faces the challenge of human tragedies throughout the globe. Yet despite his criticisms, he still believes there is time to build a more effective UN, provided the mistakes of places like Yugoslavia are corrected. See today's choices. Part 2 next Saturday
Director David Kirk; Executive producers Michael MacLear, Michael Levine, Samir Shah