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  TIMEeurope Magazine | Slaughter of the Innocents
After the Beslan school slaughter, the Kremlin's handling of the siege comes under fire.
MUSA SADULAYEV/AP A Beslan schoolgirl lies injured in hospital.
It was Friday morning, and the hostage nightmare in Beslan, a small town in the Russian republic of North Ossetia, was in its third day.
www.time.com /time/europe/html/040913/story.html   (1148 words)

  
  UNICEF - Russian Federation - Photo workshop helps Beslan’s children share hope and healing
BESLAN, Russia, 26 August 2005 — In the leadup to the anniversary of the Beslan school tragedy, UNICEF organized a photo workshop and exhibition to remind the world of what happened here in September 2004.
It was taken by Soslan Dzugaev, 13, a former hostage in the Beslan siege.
This is perhaps the most important message that the children of Beslan want to share through their photos: One year later, though the pain still lingers, life and hope are returning to their town.
www.unicef.org /infobycountry/russia_28067.html   (1083 words)

  
 Beslan: The principals of the slaughter
In your recent articles and interviews about the Beslan tragedy, you have pointed that the fundamentalist wing of Chechen separatism, the one headed by Shamil Basayev, is not the only one behind the abduction of the school, and that less so is there any need to drag al-Qaeda into the picture.
In order to commit actions like the one in Beslan, you need manpower, which is Chechen but which could also be from other Caucasian countries, money, which is Berezovsky's and of his oligarch and mafia friends, and logistics.
The censoring of press freedom is one of the main and most effective weapons Putin uses to fight his war of control over the Russian and international public opinion, which he doesn't want influenced by "liberal" reporters close to the oligarch circles and to western lobbies.
www.zmag.org /italy/chiesa-beslan.htm   (989 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Beslan siege 'planners' captured
The three-day siege of the Beslan school ended on 3 September last year in chaotic, bloody scenes.
About 330 of the 1,000 pupils and adults taken hostage died in explosions and gun battles between the attackers and Russian security forces outside the building.
The Russian MP heading the investigation into the Beslan school siege blamed the lack of organisation during the crisis on senior Kremlin officials.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4319697.stm   (311 words)

  
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Sofia Arsoyeva, a 15-year-old student at Beslan school No. 1, was seen by a classmate being driven away from the chaotic gunfight there on Sept. 3.
A bomb falling off a basketball hoop sparked the fierce battle at the Beslan school, and armed civilians hoping to save their loved ones helped sow chaos that cost the lives of hundreds of hostages.
We may never learn exactly who or what set off the tragic chain of events at the Beslan school last Friday, but what was obvious from the outset was that the officials put in charge of the operation were not equal to the task.
www.themoscowtimes.com /indexes/228.html   (1186 words)

  
  Terror at Beslan by John Giduck   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The complete and accurate story of the Beslan School Siege that occurred in Russia on September 1, 2004.
A book about the victims, the soldiers who were there, the history of the events leading up to the tragic incident, and the lessons America can learn to protect itself from terrorism.
Terror at Beslan highlights the lessons America’s school system can learn from the tragedy to protect itself from terrorism.
www.terroratbeslan.com   (69 words)

  
  beslan.html
The Ossetians speak a language of the Iranian branch of Indo-European, a descendant of one of the dialects of the Scythian rulers of the Iron Age steppe whose intermediate stage was the early medieval Alanic language.
Beslan, where the school siege occurred, is not in the historically Ingush part of North Ossetia.
The Beslan siege was a crime against humanity and not in the purview of traditional civil law.
ingush.berkeley.edu:7012 /beslan.html   (2358 words)

  
 WoT:Characters:Beslan
Beslan enters Tylin's chambers while she is with Mat.
Mat, Birgitte, Nalesean and Beslan are attacked by "beggars" on their way to the Kin house.
Beslan's coronation is scheduled on the same day as Tylin's funeral feast.
encyclopaedia-wot.org:8008 /characters/b/beslan.html   (243 words)

  
 The north Caucasus: politics or war? Thomas de Waal - openDemocracy
The North Ossetian town of Beslan will forever be associated with the horrific end to the school siege in which around 335 people, half of them children, died after being taken hostage at the start of the new school year.
The Chechens have experienced their own Beslans over the past ten years: the bombing of Grozny in 1994-5 and 1999, the massacre at Samashki in 1995 and in Aldy in 1999, to name but a few.
Beslan suggests that the radicals in Chechnya have fully eclipsed the moderates amongst the rebels and that Chechen nationalism is almost dead as a political force.
www.opendemocracy.net /democracy-caucasus/article_2080.jsp   (1464 words)

  
 Masha Lipman - After Beslan, the Media in Shackles - washingtonpost.com
Today the organized relatives of Beslan victims claim that the officials have done nothing to establish the real picture of the tragedy.
In the two years since Beslan, election rules have been repeatedly amended and fine-tuned so that nothing is left to chance and the result of the voting is sure to suit government interests.
While previous tragedies, such as the sinking of the submarine Kursk in 2000 and, to a lesser extent, the Moscow theater siege in 2002, had been investigated by major broadcast media, the monstrous terrorist attack in Beslan was not.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/03/AR2006090300743.html   (993 words)

  
 New Video Of Beslan School Terror, See 48 Hours Video Of Terrorists' School Siege - CBS News
Alia was heading to Beslan's School No. 1, which includes first through 11th grade — with nearly 900 students.
It was a hot day last September in Beslan when terrorists struck the school, taking more than 1,200 people hostage.
But like all the people of Beslan, the girls are struggling to go on with their lives.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/01/20/48hours/main668127.shtml   (3073 words)

  
 Beslan Massacre
Beslan "Mastermind" Comes Out From Under Rock To Claim Responsibility
From Yahoo and AP we have this cheerful end to the story.
BESLAN, Russia - The three-day hostage siege at a school in southern Russia ended in chaos and bloodshed Friday, after witnesses said Chechen militants set off bombs and
www.diggersrealm.com /mt/archives/cat_beslan_massacre.html   (709 words)

  
 HBO: Children of Beslan
On September 1, 2004, a group of heavily armed rebel extremists stormed into School No. 1 in Beslan, Russia.
For three days, more than a thousand children and adults were held hostage in a sweltering gymnasium, denied food and water, and forced to keep their hands over their heads.
In this film, the youngest survivors of Beslan tell their story.
www.hbo.com /docs/programs/childrenbeslan   (183 words)

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