Posted on 10/13/2004 12:44:17 AM PDT by struwwelpeter
The holiday was cancelled here. Now October 6th is Remembrance Day. At Beslan's school no. 1, there were 62 teachers and other school workers among the hostages. Twenty-two perished.
Because of the tragedy, Beslan schools cancelled Teacher's Day. Instead, at 11 AM on October 6th, the Beslan cultural center observed a 'Day of Remembrance' for the teachers who died in the storming of school number one. A small delegation came, headed by Northern Ossetia's education minister, Alina Levitskaya, and the new chairman of the government. Relatives of the deceased teachers came. The president of Ossetia did not come, but sent 'feasible pecuniary aid' for their funerals.
On Remembrance Day, the relatives were told that the president of the republic had introduced a bill to decorate all the deceased teachers with an official award, but precisely what type was not specified.
Education Minister Alina Levitskaya read the order for each teacher. She read and cried.
Zlata Sergeyevna Azieyeva. The moment the battle began, she saved children with no regard for her own life. Killed while performing her professional duty.
Al'bina Viktorovna Alikova. From the first day she helped children as they were being moved into the gymnasium, calming them down, cheering them up, distracting them from terrible thoughts. After the first explosion, Al'bina personally saved 20 children, evacuating them from a window in the gym. When the fire began, she ran barefoot along the burning embers and was heading for the exit when someone called for help. She was never seen again. Al'bina's burnt body was identified 10 days later.
Darima Batuyevna Alikova. During the terror act she supported the children, giving them aid in spite of the terrorists' orders, and was beaten for this. More than once, according to the hostages, the terrorists threatened to kill her. Darima's burned remains were identified five days later. On her body were 8 bullet wounds.
Svetlana Akhmedovna Balikoyeva. Supply clerk for the first school. They could not identify her for a long time. She proved to be literally blown to bits.
Galina Khadzhiyevna Batayeva. Until the last minutes of her life she kept her courage and composure, gathering her little schoolchildren around her. During the battle she saved children.
Zarema Gavrilovna Bekmurzova. Saved children with no concern for her own life. Perished after succeeding in saving a large number of children who were located next to her.
Alena Aksarbekovna Dzutseva. In the face of death she performed her professional duty. Until the very last minute she was rescuing children.
Ivan Konstantinovich Kanidi. Physical education teacher, 74 years old, veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Until the last minute, he was attempting to save children who looked to him for hope. He shielded them with his body. The guerillas had offered to let him leave the school, but he asked that children be released in his place, and remained in the school. He rendered two explosive devices harmless. After the explosions he tried to seize a machinegun from a guerilla and was shot to death.
Svetlana Kantemirovna Kantemirova. Teacher of the English language. Died while shielding children with her body.
Emma Khasanovna Karyayeva. Elementary class teacher. Helped children cope with fear. Lost her own daughter in this tragedy while saving other children. Emma was last seen by a friend, English teacher Larisa Sergeevna Tedeyeva, who was dragging her to the exit. Emma could no longer speak, and blood was gushing from a wound on her neck. Emma brought her right hand to her lips and kissed her wedding ring. Later, she wrote in blood on the floor: 'I love you. Karina.' In this manner she did bid her husband and daughter farewell.
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Mikhailov. Labor teacher. Until the last minute he courageously performed his duty as a teacher, a man, and a protector.
Nadezhda Ivanovna Nazarova. Biology teacher. Sacrificed herself to save children. Died will performing her dury as a teacher. She died together with her daughter and two grandchildren.
Natal'ya Aleksandrovna Rudenok. Teacher of art and drawing. Saved children, died while performing her duty as a teacher.
Ol'ga Nikolayevna Soskiyeva. Elementary class teacher. Tried to protect children from the guerillas' aggression and calm them down. Took upon herself the care of a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, veteran of labor and retired history teacher Zaurbek Kharitonovich Gasiyev, who traditionally came to the school on the first day of class. She literally carried the old man from the gym to the restroom, because he had difficulty moving. Gasiyev survived. When the explosion boomed out, Ol'ga Nikolayevna did not concern herself with saving herself or her own daughter. She pushed children to safety though windows.
Al'bina Vladimirovna Tuskayeva. Supported children, adults, and parents. Saved her students, lost her son.
Irina Zakharovna Khanayeva. A teacher worthy of the Russian Federation. Elementary education teacher, seventy-four years old. In the most difficult situation, though suffering from thrombophlebitis, she massed her little students about her and saved her entire class. During the battle, Irina Zakharovna was wounded by a burst of automatic weapons fire to her legs, but she stood up on her knees so that the children could climb her back and jump from the window. Died a true teacher.
Taisiya Kaurbekovna Khetagurova. Kept her courage. Saved many of her students, and died.
Roza Timofeyevna Cherdzhiyeva. Until the last minute she remained a teacher. She saved her students and showed rare courage. Remained a teacher of teachers. On the last surviving blackboard in the school her rescued students wrote: 'Roza Timofeyevna! We will never forget you'.
Tarkan Gabuliyevich Sabanov. Ninty years old, veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Guerillas offered to let him leave the school, but he refused and said: 'I started my life here, and I will end it here!' Died a true teacher and front-line soldier.
Ivan Il'ich Karlov. Worked for many years in the school boiler room. Seventy-two years old. Hid children and a teacher in the boiler room, saving the lives of 30 people. Shot by the guerillas.
In the enumeration of those killed and posthumously decorated, for some reason the following names did not appear: Alla Teymurazovna Andiyeva, who led a beginning modeling class, and laboratory assistant Rita Mukhtarovna Nogayeva.
Elena Milashina, our special correspondent in Beslan
We would like to thank our colleagues from the Beslan newspaper 'Life on the Right Bank' for their help in preparing this material.
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God bless every one of them, and curse the terrorists to hell.
What a very tragic article. The fact that the Islamics considered these people to be the "enemy" tells you all you need to know about Muslim terrorists and their insane belief system. How many more good people are they going to kill before civilization finally reins them in again, as it as had to do so often over the past 1200+ years?
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Guilt, I suppose.
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Dear Lord, how brave these teachers were! May God bless them all.
As Marshal Konev once asked his generals, before the start of the Vestul Offensive: there are two kinds of men, the first wishes to die of old age in bed, surrounded by his friends and relatives. The second wants to die in battle. Which are you?
There is such a profession, as the defense of the Rodina.
May G-d comfort those who mourn and avenge the innocent blood.
Amen.
The root cause of both is the same group: Soros (and his friend's of Gore, oligarches).
Though evil may beget evil, some times the only remedy is blood. Let the spilt blood of the innocent be washed away by the spilt blood of the judged and condemned.
Ivan Konstantinovich Kanidi. Physical education teacher, 74 years old, veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Until the last minute, he was attempting to save children who looked to him for hope. He shielded them with his body. The guerillas had offered to let him leave the school, but he asked that children be released in his place, and remained in the school. He rendered two explosive devices harmless. After the explosions he tried to seize a machinegun from a guerilla and was shot to death.
And then the Great Marshal Konev of the Soviet Union sent his troops out to clear German Mine fields by running through them uncleared.
Guess what, by the time you call up the engineers to carefully clear those minefields, the offensive is over and you are all dead.
There were no miclics back then and for your information, the US Army, from first hand experience, practices crossing minefields all the time. When the first tank blows up, the second tank drives up and pushes it forward, using it to clear the rest of the lane.
Welcome to real total war and against an enemy a bit more compitent then drugged up arabs.
He died like a Russian. You don't say that so and so PVT of 101st Airborne died like a German or a Costa Rican or an Italian. You say, he died like an American. This man might have been of greek ancestry but considering the greeks were in that area 1,000 years ago and have not been part of "greece" or Byzantium for about as long, he died like a member of the country he lived in and the military he had served in.
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