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The Faces Of Beslan

September 01, 2009

On September 1, 2004, 32 Chechen militants stormed School No. 1 in the North Ossetian town of Beslan and held 1,100 pupils, their relatives, and teachers hostage for three days. The militants demanded the withdrawal of federal forces from Chechnya. In the end, more than 330 of the hostages died, including 186 children, after a botched rescue attempt by Russian security forces.

Moscow-based photographer Maxim Marmur spent two weeks in Beslan in 2004 following the siege and returned five years later, in May 2009, to photograph survivors and the families of the victims. The captions were written by Svetlana Sukhova.

Photo gallery of Beslan: Portraits Of Grief

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by: Konstantin from: Los Angeles

September 23, 2009 04:31

Let me add to it and also to one of the closed previous forums:

Caucasus, as humans everywhere, loking for garmony of Freedom, Dignity and better life and progress,
but in order to have it:

1. Have countries and regional Common Welth of people related geneticly, by haracter and Culture, by common interests and by defenseable territories - at list to have time for international help.

2. It should consider also wider Common Welth and common interests Continentally and Globally, but not the artificcially forged Russian "matreshkas", invading with secret armies of death of pseudo-terrorists of emergeing Russian Empire and inventing "nations" out of such armies and children of raped by them local nationals.

It is why thouse that play "matreshkas" from both sides of their mouthes are wrong:
All nationalities in Caucasus, even smallest and largest, look not for "total independence against each other for Russia" or for "total slavery to die in indignity in Russian Empire", but for the best form of independence or autonomy that for all generations (as Humanity has left till the Judgement day) will have LIBERTE, DIGNITE, good life and future and progress...

The answer is - some form of Regional Common Welth with Georgia and all Caucasus...

Konstantin.

by: Konstantin from: Los Angeles

September 01, 2009 17:10

1. Beslan killings were to threaten Osetia - to be more active in Russian attempts to conquer Georgia.
2. Beslan killings were to overturn Northern Osetia government for being "aggression-wise lazy" - to replace government by Russians and children of locals girls, being kidnapped and inpregnated by Russians, to prepare invasion into Georgia.
3. Beslan killings were race hate of Russia to children of Beslan that looked like Georgians.
4. Beslan killings were hate of Russia to any success, even very small, like the bottled in Beslan Georgian vine and renovated Beslan school.
5. Beslan killings were, also, part of race war to devide ethnographic groups, including Northern Osetia - to create "blondy" part Skifians to be brothers of Russians, "sporty" part Guns to wrestle for Russia, "Jew-sized" part Dan to be intellectual slaves of Russia and those that look like they have more "Georgian" blood than above, not unlike Medians in Beslan, to be hated and squized out first by Russia...

Russians say:
- "Russia must expand in each generation!"

Konstantin.