#beslan

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(via Beslan Remembers Victims of Russia’s Deadliest Terror Attack 20 Years On  - The Moscow Times)

Relatives of the victims of the Beslan school siege gathered Sunday to pay tribute at the ruins of the school, remembering the 330 people, including 186 children, who lost their lives in Russia’s deadliest terror attack.

School bells rang at 9:15 a.m. local time, marking the start of the siege 20 years ago, while mourners laid flowers, lit candles, and placed bottles of water — a tribute to the hostages who were held in inhumane conditions.

On Sept. 1, 2004, militants from Chechnya stormed Beslan School No. 1 in North Ossetia, demanding the withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya. Gunmen took 1,100 hostages, including children, parents and teachers who had come to the school to celebrate the start of the new academic year.

For nearly 52 hours, the hostages were held without food or water. Negotiations with the militants were tense and largely unproductive, with the attackers refusing to back down from their demands.

On the third day of the hostage crisis, a series of explosions erupted inside the school, plunging the situation into chaos and triggering an assault by Russian special forces. It remains unknown whether the explosions were accidental detonations or triggered by the militants, who had rigged the school with bombs.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86ld5z2ll7o

https://www.britannica.com/event/Beslan-school-attack

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Разжимая кулаки [Unclenching the Fists] (Kira Kovalenko, 2021)

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russian serviceman rescues a minor girl taken hostage during Beslan School Massacre

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18 years ago, on the morning of September 1, 2004, during a rally dedicated to the beginning of the school year, Chechen terrorists seized Beslan's School No. 1.

More than 1,100 people, mostly children and their parents, became hostages of the terrorists. Most of them were taken to the gymnasium, the rest to the gym, the shower room and the canteen. They were not even given water.

For two and a half days the Alpha and Vympel special forces rescued the children at the cost of their own lives.

The victims of that terrorist attack were 334 people, including 318 hostages, 186 of whom were children.

That day has forever become a day of remembrance for all the victims - the children and adults, the security personnel who, faithful to their oath, shielded the hostages with their lives to the very last.

We remember. We mourn. And we won't let it happen again 🙏🏻

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Эльбрус и Алена

На первом фото — Эльбрус Гогичаев выносит шестимесячную Алёну Цкаеву во время теракта в Беслане. Тогда погибли её мама и сестра. Второе фото — их первая встреча спустя 10 лет. В этом году у Алёны школьный выпускной, и она пригласила Эльбруса. Он пообещал прийти — как и всегда...

The first photo shows Elbrus Gogichaev carrying six-month-old Alyona Tskaeva during the terrorist attack in Beslan. Then her mother and sister died.

The second photo is their first meeting after 10 years.

This year, Alena has a school graduation, and she invited Elbrus. He promised to come — as he always did

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Ранее

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Beslan, 2004.

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A woman with two young girls attend a memorial ceremony marking the 15th anniversary of the Beslan school siege in which 334 people lost their lives, Beslan, Russia, Eduard Korniyenko, 2019