http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/08/beslan-siege-five-years-on
“The Beslan siege five years on”
SNIPPET: “They were too young or too traumatised to recount their experiences at the time, but now survivors of the terrorist attack on School Number One talk exclusively to Viv Groskop about the three days that horrified the world, and their lives since”
Viv Groskop
The Guardian, Saturday 8 August 2009
SNIPPET: “Fatima’s parents were destroyed by the death of their younger daughter, Lana says. “For the first year they were just in the cemetery all the time. Fatima used to say, ‘Mummy, why are you crying? Is it because I didn’t die?’ “ Five years on, Zhanna’s nerves are “shot to pieces” and Alik is off work with high blood pressure. In Beslan, Lana says, “I could tell you of about 10 parents who have died young in the last five years because their nerves gave out or they had heart attacks.”
Still, it is good to read that a few of the children who survived it, have been able to overcome some of the horror they witnessed, and are trying to make something of themselves. God bless them.
No one should forget Beslan. That's what the enemy is capable of.
(Can't tell you how scary it is to have the current administration in charge of protecting us from Muslim fanatics. They just don't get it. There is no reasoning with evil. Pray for our nation.)