The cia world fact book entry on russia gives viewers a brief. Perpetrated by militants linked to the separatist insurgency in the nearby republic of chechnya, the attack resulted in the deaths of more than 330 people, the majority of them children. This guardian article summarizes the details of the siege at beslans school no. Our interactive timeline, allowing you to see the relationship between the events of 911, those that. Julia roberts narrates the gripping account of the hostage crisis 10 years ago in a small russian town where chechen terrorists seized a school and killed over 330. School terrorism timeline and information safe havens international. The beslan school siege, the guardian unlimited, 6 sept. In her book female suicide bombers, rosemarie skaine provides further insight into the. The beslan school hostage crisis began when armed muslim terrorists took more than 1200 school children and adults hostage on 1 september 2004, at school. Read a timeline of the threeday school siege in beslan, russia, in september 2004. The european court of human rights has ruled that russia failed to protect the hostages of the beslan school siege in which about 330 people died in 2004. The school terrorism website was created for the book innocent targets. The scale of the violence at beslan and, in particular, the fact.
Beslan school attack, violent takeover of a school in beslan, a city in the north caucasus republic of north ossetia, russia, in september 2004. How the school siege unfolded read a timeline of the threeday school siege in beslan, russia, in september 2004. As my living and breathing beslan period is nearing its fifth year, i would like to add that i recently published a book titled the beslan massacre. Russian media report that attackers are wearing suicidebomb belts and threatening to blow up school. On september 1, 2004, one of the worst terrorist attacks in russias history unfolded at a school in the small north ossetian town of beslan. During a hospital visit, a sombre president saw several of the victims. The crisis began when a group of armed islamic militants, mostly ingush and chechen, occupied school number.
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