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Fifteen Years After Beslan Tragedy, Emotions Still Run High
RFE ^ | August 31, 2019

Posted on 09/03/2019 10:48:50 AM PDT by NorseViking

It started 15 years ago as a hostage taking in a small town in southern Russia. It ended three days later in bloodshed that left hundreds dead, the majority of them children, in one of the worst terror attacks in Russian history.

Some three dozen Chechen militants took more than 1,200 people hostage at a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, on September 1, 2004. The drama ended days later after Russian forces stormed the school. The standoff and resulting battle saw 334 people killed, 186 of whom were children.

"I was lining the students up [to address them]. When I took the microphone, the first shots rang out. We all fled into the hall," recalls Yelena Ganiyeva, then a teacher and now the principal at Beslan School No. 1.

The siege began on the first day of classes, with many parents accompanying their kids to School No. 1.

The militants launched their raid on the school shortly after 9 a.m. local time, forced all hostages into an overcrowded gym, and executed a number of teachers and parents. The hostage takers reportedly wore suicide belts, and bombs were strapped to the basketball nets in the gymnasium.

The standoff continued until September 3, when Russian security forces stormed the school with the support of heavy weaponry, including tank fire and grenade launchers.

(Excerpt) Read more at rferl.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Russia
KEYWORDS: anniversary; beslan; chechens; diversity; islam; islamic; migration; muslim; muslims; russia; waronterror
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1 posted on 09/03/2019 10:48:50 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: NorseViking

I wondered if it was a Putiin “False Flag”, because as a result of Beslan, Putin’s powers increased.


2 posted on 09/03/2019 10:49:43 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

It is a theory in class of 9/11 as a Bush/Saudi operation.


3 posted on 09/03/2019 10:51:43 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: NorseViking

If anyone wonders what pure evil looks like in our time it’s Beslen.


4 posted on 09/03/2019 10:52:24 AM PDT by GOPJ (CNN's Lawrence O'Donnell rapes 5 year old boys and his Mom's a whore. IF true a bombshell story.)
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To: dfwgator

“I wondered if it was a Putiin “False Flag”, because as a result of Beslan, Putin’s powers increased.”

I doubt it. It was a case of “it can’t happen here” right up until the moment it did.

L


5 posted on 09/03/2019 10:54:16 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: NorseViking
I remember that. Soldiers of the Religion of Peace shot kids in the back as they fled the school.
6 posted on 09/03/2019 10:59:19 AM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: Lurker

“The militants launched their raid”

They weren’t “militants”; they were terrorists.


7 posted on 09/03/2019 10:59:24 AM PDT by CondorFlight
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To: NorseViking

Most Americans have never heard of the massacre at Beslan. It doesn’t fit our propaganda media’s agenda. Sad all around.


8 posted on 09/03/2019 10:59:38 AM PDT by Freee-dame (Best election ever! 2016)
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To: Lurker

Putin indeed had power increased but it was an answer to the situation in South Russia when local governors and mayor’s were more loyal to Saudi Arabia than to federal government.
Beslan could have not take place if there was effective border control and effective border control in place. Terrorists came by truckloads fully armed.


9 posted on 09/03/2019 11:01:49 AM PDT by NorseViking
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Negative, sir.


10 posted on 09/03/2019 11:04:54 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: dfwgator

Will DJT benefit from an American Beslan?


11 posted on 09/03/2019 11:05:15 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: CondorFlight

They were MUZZIE terrorists.


12 posted on 09/03/2019 11:07:28 AM PDT by 353FMG
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They weren’t “militants”; they were terrorists muslims.

Fixed it

13 posted on 09/03/2019 11:09:22 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

i remember reading they got many of the terrorists hooked on drugs, heroin and the like...i also remember they put bombs in the basketball nets and put the kids in the gym in case the police tried to storm the school..

Finally i remember a story where one of the terrorists tried to escape, was caught by the parents and community, and was beheaded...

there should be a LOT of payback for what happened in Beslan...


14 posted on 09/03/2019 11:09:54 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: 353FMG

I remember it. Most of the victims died from nerve gas.


15 posted on 09/03/2019 11:13:12 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (You cannot solidify control and power over people who are able to defend themselves.)
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To: Freee-dame

Reminder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E65yotGs1HE


16 posted on 09/03/2019 11:15:07 AM PDT by 353FMG
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“The militant”??

No where in the article does it mention: Islamist, Muslim, Terrorist.

Reality is necessary to deal with a problem.


17 posted on 09/03/2019 11:17:29 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: NorseViking

Did their politicians discuss more gun control laws...


18 posted on 09/03/2019 11:18:41 AM PDT by northislander
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To: 353FMG

No! He would find no benefit in the short run. Anything close to a “Beslan” would very quickly become
Trump’s Katrina + Hiroshima. At least in the eye of the Media.


19 posted on 09/03/2019 11:22:25 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: READINABLUESTATE

Differant Muslim attack.

That was in a theater in Moscow.


20 posted on 09/03/2019 11:22:33 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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