Martin Antonenko
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Bloody School Start at Beslan...
On September 1, 2004, school will start again in all of Russia after the long holidays. This start of school is a much-attended ritual.
The first graders are ceremoniously received and assigned to their classes - the whole thing looks more like a festival than a normal school day.
Entire family associations appear in their Sunday best to attend the ceremonies.
This is also the case in secondary school No. 1 in the small town of Beslan in North Ossetia ...:
The festivities just started when a group of at least 32 hostage-takers stormed Middle School No. 1 in Beslan at 9:30 am.
At this point in time, there were around 1,500 people in the school.
Some of the attackers are masked and heavily armed, some are equipped with explosive belts for suicide attacks, including two (official version) or four (according to witness statements) women, so-called "black widows", i.e. relatives of Chechens killed in battle with Russian troops.
They belong to the "Second Martyrs Battalion under the command of colonel Orstkojew" ...
... which in turn is part of the terrorist group "Rijadus-Salichin" (= "Gardens of the Virtuous"), which is founded by the Chechen rebel warlord Shamil Bassajew ...
... was founded in 2001, which was deliberately killed on the night of July 10, 2006 by a Russian Spetsnas commando near Ekaschewo in Ingushetia.
After an exchange of fire with the police, the attackers occupied the school building and took 1,127 students, teachers and parents under their control. At least five people are killed in the first attack.
The attackers lock the hostages in the gym ...
... and mine all entrances and rooms in the school.
To avoid storming the building, they threatened the killing of fifty hostages for each kidnapper killed by the police and twenty hostages for each injured. About fifty people manage to escape into the open air in the initial confusion ...:
The school was soon besieged by the Russian police, army and OMON special units, who were waiting for the special units, "ALFA" and "Wympel" to arrive; since no one knows who is actually in command, an enormous chaos ensues.
In the shambles of one simply forgets to completely cordon off the area so that many residents of Beslan still have access to the school building.
The Russian government has announced that it will refrain from using violence to protect the hostages and will negotiate with the hostage-takers.
However, there is only one direct meeting with Ruslan Sultanowitsch Auschew, the ex-president of Ingushetia ...:
Auschew manages to free toddlers from infancy.
The hostage takers make the following demands:
• Release of captured Chechen fighters from prisons
• Withdrawal of all Russian troops from Chechnya
• Resignation of President Putin
The hostage-takers refuse to deliver food and water, even though there were small children among the hostages.
This refusal is not out of cruelty, but the hostage-takers are simply afraid that the Russians will mix some sleeping pills or even poison into food and drinks ...
The prisoners' thirst and heat are so intense that some of them drink their urine and strip down to their underwear.
The school principal, who suffers from diabetes, dies because he is denied the necessary supply of insulin.
On Thursday, September 2nd, will be. 26 hostages, some mothers with their children, released.
On Friday, September 3, 2004, the hostage-takers and the Russian units agreed on the removal of corpses.
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On September 1, 2004, school will start again in all of Russia after the long holidays. This start of school is a much-attended ritual.
The first graders are ceremoniously received and assigned to their classes - the whole thing looks more like a festival than a normal school day.
Entire family associations appear in their Sunday best to attend the ceremonies.
This is also the case in secondary school No. 1 in the small town of Beslan in North Ossetia ...:
The festivities just started when a group of at least 32 hostage-takers stormed Middle School No. 1 in Beslan at 9:30 am.
At this point in time, there were around 1,500 people in the school.
Some of the attackers are masked and heavily armed, some are equipped with explosive belts for suicide attacks, including two (official version) or four (according to witness statements) women, so-called "black widows", i.e. relatives of Chechens killed in battle with Russian troops.
They belong to the "Second Martyrs Battalion under the command of colonel Orstkojew" ...
... which in turn is part of the terrorist group "Rijadus-Salichin" (= "Gardens of the Virtuous"), which is founded by the Chechen rebel warlord Shamil Bassajew ...
... was founded in 2001, which was deliberately killed on the night of July 10, 2006 by a Russian Spetsnas commando near Ekaschewo in Ingushetia.
After an exchange of fire with the police, the attackers occupied the school building and took 1,127 students, teachers and parents under their control. At least five people are killed in the first attack.
The attackers lock the hostages in the gym ...
... and mine all entrances and rooms in the school.
To avoid storming the building, they threatened the killing of fifty hostages for each kidnapper killed by the police and twenty hostages for each injured. About fifty people manage to escape into the open air in the initial confusion ...:
The school was soon besieged by the Russian police, army and OMON special units, who were waiting for the special units, "ALFA" and "Wympel" to arrive; since no one knows who is actually in command, an enormous chaos ensues.
In the shambles of one simply forgets to completely cordon off the area so that many residents of Beslan still have access to the school building.
The Russian government has announced that it will refrain from using violence to protect the hostages and will negotiate with the hostage-takers.
However, there is only one direct meeting with Ruslan Sultanowitsch Auschew, the ex-president of Ingushetia ...:
Auschew manages to free toddlers from infancy.
The hostage takers make the following demands:
• Release of captured Chechen fighters from prisons
• Withdrawal of all Russian troops from Chechnya
• Resignation of President Putin
The hostage-takers refuse to deliver food and water, even though there were small children among the hostages.
This refusal is not out of cruelty, but the hostage-takers are simply afraid that the Russians will mix some sleeping pills or even poison into food and drinks ...
The prisoners' thirst and heat are so intense that some of them drink their urine and strip down to their underwear.
The school principal, who suffers from diabetes, dies because he is denied the necessary supply of insulin.
On Thursday, September 2nd, will be. 26 hostages, some mothers with their children, released.
On Friday, September 3, 2004, the hostage-takers and the Russian units agreed on the removal of corpses.
**continued next post**
