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The children of Beslan five years on
BBC Newsnight ^
| 29 August 2009
| Ewa Ewart
Posted on 09/01/2009 4:15:25 PM PDT by rvoitier
Russian teenager Chermen has his own assessment of why he survived the attack on School Number One in Beslan in which 326 people, 186 of them children, died.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: anniversary; beslan; globaljihad
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posted on
09/01/2009 4:15:26 PM PDT
by
rvoitier
To: rvoitier
Say whatever you want about the Russians- I remember reports of Russian soldiers
blocking doorways with their bodies to absorb bullets so that a few more kids could make it out.
Assuming those reports were correct, that is the possibly the finest practical expression of the soldier's ethos, and the most direct, that I have ever heard of.
Credit where credit is due.
2
posted on
09/01/2009 4:27:10 PM PDT
by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: Riley
GQ had the most heart wrenching article on this attack within a year of the attack. “Beslan”, the word, almost makes me cry when I hear it or read it.
3
posted on
09/01/2009 4:30:28 PM PDT
by
eureka!
(Turn the Tea Party into our own ACORN when voting time comes. GOTV.)
To: Riley
Beslan was a gut-wrenching tragedy for me. Actually, tragedy is the wrong word. It was an abomination.
If there is anything off-limits in this world, it is the deliberate killing of children so someone can make their pathetic political or religious point.
I trust that the surviving terrorists were treated to the appropriate hospitality by their interrogators. I'll bet it wasn't waterboarding.
4
posted on
09/01/2009 4:32:41 PM PDT
by
Sender
(It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
To: Riley
The Beslan attack was heartbreaking. And you’re right, a great many Russian heroes showed up for work that day.
5
posted on
09/01/2009 4:32:55 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: Ramius
I hope the Russians make a movie about Beslan. A Hollywood production would insult the memory.
6
posted on
09/01/2009 4:40:31 PM PDT
by
IDFbunny
To: Ramius
Never to be forgotten. I call her the Beslan Madonna.
To: rvoitier
Still as heartbreaking as ever.
8
posted on
09/01/2009 4:47:54 PM PDT
by
Sweet_Sunflower29
(Pug- Multum in parvo (much in little) And as a pug mommy, I absolutely agree!!)
To: WIladyconservative
From the article:
“And Chermen said that he never goes to the cemetery “because I am simply afraid to flood Beslan with my tears”.”
Just breaks my heart.
To: rvoitier
10
posted on
09/01/2009 4:54:49 PM PDT
by
Gapplega
To: eureka!
Same here. I sent an email of condolences to the embassy at the time, and received a nice response. The same kind of evil happened on 9/11/01.
"And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea." Mark 9:42
11
posted on
09/01/2009 4:58:28 PM PDT
by
LucyJo
To: rvoitier
One of the dirty little secrets about Chechnya is that the same so-called "neo-conservatives" who were so influential in foreign policy and military affairs during the Bush administration were also unapologetic supporters of the Chechen separatists.
That little inconvenient fact got quietly swept under the rug soon after the Beslan massacre.
12
posted on
09/01/2009 5:11:29 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(God is great, beer is good . . . and people are crazy.)
To: rvoitier
Note how the BBC account furiously avoids any description of the attackers, and the victims are described primarily in terms of their victimhood. To read the BBC story, you would think a roof simply fell on the kids in the school.
13
posted on
09/01/2009 5:14:09 PM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(It looks just like a Telefunken U-47. In leather.)
To: rvoitier
He says he has tried to understand things from the attackers’ point of view.
^^
This is describing one of the child victims. Lordy!
14
posted on
09/01/2009 5:27:33 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Palin/Hunter 2012)
To: Alberta's Child
If you’re implying the neo-cons approved of the massacre, I don’t believe it.
15
posted on
09/01/2009 5:53:33 PM PDT
by
rvoitier
("The law allows what honor forbids." -- C. C. Colton)
To: rvoitier
16
posted on
09/01/2009 11:01:20 PM PDT
by
MarMema
(Chains we can believe in)
To: rvoitier
No, I'm just pointing out that the "neo-cons" don't care very much about terrorism, that's all.
And I DO believe that.
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posted on
09/02/2009 4:53:02 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(God is great, beer is good . . . and people are crazy.)
To: LucyJo
Good morning and nicely done. I prayed like heck for them.
18
posted on
09/02/2009 7:57:39 AM PDT
by
eureka!
(Turn the Tea Party into our own ACORN when voting time comes. GOTV.)
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