The hostage takers were Islamic terrorists. The blame is squarely on Islam.
It was a really bad situation. You have suicide/murderers armed to the teeth willing to die in order to murder.
The Russians had a really tough situation. It might could have been handled better but who really knows?
That court ought to have those Chechens take them hostage and see what they think is appropriate force.
I’m betting the Euro-weenie court would say the same thing about the governments of England, France, Sweden and Germany if they responded appropriately to terror attacks from Islam in their respective countries.
We're different. We go after them AFTER they commit a crime. Boston is a good example.
Baloney. The court is trying to absolve muslims. As I recall, there were a lot of cell phone calls back and forth between the terrorists and contacts back in Saudi Arabia.
Beslan is what made it impossible for the US to support the Chechen revolt against Russia.
The Russians went in after the Muzzies and the Chechnayans started fighting about killing the hostages.
The Arabs and the Chechnayans started fighting in the gym, causing some of the explosives to go off prematurely, which started the fire.
The SPETNAZ started engaging the terrorists on the roof with gunfire when the explosion happened. Local men began running into the building, grabbing children and exiting, while the SPETNAZ kept the terrorists from shooting at them.
The local men realized what was going on and began jumping into windows of the building. Only one terrorist “survived” the battle, and he was interrogated relentlessly until he gave up information which allowed the Russians to find the rest of the operatives and network. None were captured alive, regrettably.
This is why Putin is President and will stay President, because he acted the way every single Russian wanted him to.
The entire time the kids were in there they were being terrorized.
the Terrorists didn’t permit them to go to the bathroom, were given no water, they raped numerous little girls.
They raped little boys, one with a bottle.
it wasn’t just waiting around, that whole time they’re actively terrifying them, doing horrible unspeakable things to them.
Entirely anecdotal, so I can’t back it up, but I remember at the time hearing of an incident of Russian soldiers blocking a doorway with their bodies and eating rounds with their armor, so a few more kids could get out.
If it’s true, it moves the hell out of me.
Reading the article, it seems that this verdict is pretty much a shakedown for money. Two point niner million euros worth. Russian response pretty much summed up as “defecate in your chapeaux.”
The Russians knew an attack was imminent. What did they know? Where, when, who, how?
The whole thing was horrendous.
Outlaw Islam
Expel all Muslims
Stop all aid to Muslim lands
Beslan — muzzie calling card.
In my opinion the European Court of Human Rights (and their Media friends) are a bunch of backstabbing, second guessing, Know-It-All Prog Socialist hypocrite Elitists running a revenue generation scam, not fit to shine the shoes of Western American and Russian Federation Police, Anti Terror Security Agencies and dedicated Military Personnel.
The same kind of lying @$$hole$ said the same thing about 9/11. Something was up, but no details as to where, when or how. Do they really think that had specifics of the attack had been known that Spetznaz troops would not have been awaiting the Muslim terrorists' arrival and wiped them out?
Someone should have submitted 9/11 to this court. Jamie Gorelick would have been toast.
The hostages were never getting out alive. Every hostage that came out alive was a life saved. The terrorists had bombs on dead man switches. What does that tell you?
I have never understood this concept of "disproportionate force", not during a terrorist-hostage situation. While the Russians used force ineffectively in the end, the problem was not that the amount of force was disproportionate, the problem was that the force failed.