The U.N. lost 21 of its employees after the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, including humanitarian workers who ran feeding programs and specialized in gender issues.
in rural Ethiopia on Sunday, killing all 157 passengers and crew aboard, the U.N. was among those groups that took a significant hit — 21 of its employees died.
Though devastating, it was not the single largest death toll for the U.N. community. In 2010, a catastrophicflattened the hotel where many U.N. officials lived, killing 102. Twenty-three were killed when insurgents bombed the organization’s offices in Baghdad in 2003, shortly after the U.S. invaded Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein. Among the dead was the chief of mission, veteran diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres held a minute of silence at the New York headquarters Monday and ordered flags flown at"A global tragedy has hit close to home, and the United Nations is united in grief," Guterres said, extending his"deepest condolences" to the relatives and loved ones of all those who died.The U.N. dead included two Italian women in their 20s, Virginia Chimenti and Maria Pilar Buzzetti, who worked at the World Food Program’s headquarters in Rome.
“U.N. workers face unbelievable risks to help people all over the world,” Peter Yeo, senior vice president of the , which works to improve relations between the U.N. and Washington, said in an interview. “This is a reminder of the exposure U.N. workers have, with so much travel in high-risk areas.“What a loss of talent,” Yeo said. “A tragic loss for the families, for the people they were serving and for the institution.”A digest of essential news, insight and analysis from L.A. Times editors.
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