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 ...
I wondered if it was a Putiin “False Flag”, because as a result of Beslan, Putin’s powers increased.
It is a theory in class of 9/11 as a Bush/Saudi operation.
If anyone wonders what pure evil looks like in our time it’s Beslen.
“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.
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“The militants launched their raid”
They weren’t “militants”; they were terrorists.
Most Americans have never heard of the massacre at Beslan. It doesn’t fit our propaganda media’s agenda. Sad all around.
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.
Negative, sir.
Will DJT benefit from an American Beslan?
They were MUZZIE terrorists.
Fixed it
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...
I remember it. Most of the victims died from nerve gas.
“The militant”??
No where in the article does it mention: Islamist, Muslim, Terrorist.
Reality is necessary to deal with a problem.
Did their politicians discuss more gun control laws...
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.
Differant Muslim attack.
That was in a theater in Moscow.
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