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Russia's response to the Beslan school siege had ''serious failings''
Russia's response to the 2004 Beslan school siege had ''serious failings'' and breached human rights laws, one of Europe's top courts has said.
Not only did Russia fail to take action to prevent the siege, its operation to end it and the subsequent investigation which followed were also seriously flawed, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Thursday.
More than 330 people were killed in the Beslan massacre, including 186 children, after Chechen rebels took more than 1000 hostages.
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Russia: Beslan marks 15th anniversary of deadly school siege *ARCHIVE*
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The town of Beslan of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania in Southern Russia is marking the 15th anniversary of the deadly Beslan school siege on Sunday.
On September 1, 2004, militants from the North Caucasus region seized the school and held over 1,000 people captive for three days without food or water.
The siege ended on September 3rd, with some moments captured on video.
The bloodiest terrorist attack in Russia’s history claimed - in official figures – the lives of 186 children, 118 relatives or school guests, 17 teachers, 10 special forces officers, 2 Emergencies Ministry employees and one policeman. The youngest victim was just 2 years old.
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Beslan School Siege Ends - 2004 | Today in History | 3 Sept 16
On September 3, 2004 a three-day hostage siege at a school in Beslan, Russia, ended in bloody chaos after Chechen militants set off bombs and Russian commandos stormed the building; more than 330 people were killed, most of them children.
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Russia: Meet the mother and daughter who survived the Beslan school crisis
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W/S Aleta and Amina walking past Beslan school memorial
SOT, Amina Sabanova, Beslan Survivor (Speaking Russian):
I saw people around me running. I think I could have easily ended up trampled to death. And then, all of a sudden, somebody's hand grabbed me. And this hand was also holding many other little hands. This was our teacher.
M/S Gunfire and shrapnel scars in wall
SOT, Aleta Sabanova, Beslan Survivor (Speaking Russian):
I ran to the school and saw a militant standing at the entrance. I raised my hands and asked him if I could get in. He said: Anybody can go in but nobody can get out. He pushed me with the butt of his rifle, and I ran into the building.
M/S Bullet holes and skipping rope
SOT, Amina Sabanova, Beslan Survivor (Speaking Russian):
I was sitting there, I didn't know anyone. And then I saw someone's legs in front of me. I looked up and saw my mother.
M/S Teddybear and notebook
SOT, Aleta Sabanova, Beslan Survivor (Speaking Russian):
Children were crying, they were just little, and they were tired and thirsty, and the terrorists yelled: Tell your children to shut up, or we'll start shooting the lights, and you all will be sitting in broken glass and bleeding!
M/S Aleta and Amina looking at victims of Beslan crisis
SOT, Amina Sabanova, Beslan Survivor (Speaking Russian):
I remember how I sat down and started crying. I kept asking: where's grandpa? Where's grandpa?
C/U Flower memorial
W/S Beslan school buidling
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Memories came flooding back on when Aleta Sabanova and her daughter returned to the site where they were kept as hostages in the Beslan school siege, September 2004.
They were among over a thousand children, staff and parents held hostage by heavily armed Chechen and Ingush separatist militants.
Aleta and her daughter Amina returned to School Number One (SNO) in the town of Beslan, North Ossetia on Monday to mark a decade on from the siege. The Salafist militants took the hostages, including Amina and her sister, to the school's gym, and held them there, one militant saying Anybody can go in but nobody can get out. Her mother would later voluntarily enter the building to be with her daughters.
The mother and children were forced to stay inside the gym with the family's father - school principal Tarkan Sabanov - throughout most of the 52-hour ordeal.
While the gym has been cleaned up and turned into a memorial to the victims, the school's hallways remain untouched since the attack.
Toward the end of the Beslan crisis, Aleta said that she had even prayed for their own deaths to end their suffering, but she and her daughters made it through the siege. Amina says the nightmare inspired her to help others, and she's studying to become a doctor.
The Beslan school hostage crisis took place on September 1, 2004, and lasted three days. Chechen and Ingush separatist militants captured over 1,100 people as hostages, including 777 children. The crisis ended with the death of 334 people, with 186 children among the deceased.
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Hostages flee Beslan school siege - 2004
Russia's hostage crisis erupted into explosions, gunfire and screams of fleeing children on Friday as commandos stormed the school where militants strapped with bombs had held as many as 1,200 people hostage. More than 150 people were dead, and officials said the toll could rise significantly.
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1. Wide shot of school, smoke coming from the building and zoom into people running from building AUDIO gunfire
2. Close up hostages running from the scene, soldiers running
3. Wide of the scene with children running down the street guided by soldiers, pulls out to wide shot
4. Top shot of children running away to triage area
5. Soldiers helping two semi- naked girls away, they run to triage area
6. Wide shot of soldiers and medics tending to injured victims on stretchers
7. Children drinking water, girl with back wounds drinking water
8. Woman being taken away faints and is put on stretcher
9.Adults and children on stretchers being tended by civilians
10. Woman in blood stained shirt giving drink to a child
11. Man and woman hug
12. Wide shot of triage area
13. Man carrying two boys through the triage area
14. Woman with bloody dress escorted from a car to triage area
15. Little girl with bandage on her head being carried from the building and put into a car
16. Boy carried out of jeep and into ambulance
17. Ambulance drives away, sirens on
18. People on stretchers outside hospital
19. Woman lying on stretcher tilt up to two boys
20. Stretcher with small child, pan to woman on stretcher being carried into vehicle
21. Two dead bodies lying on grass covered with white sheets
22. Close up of feet protruding from sheet
23. Various of dead bodies being moved off of stretchers, paramedics taking stretchers away
24. Woman lifts sheet to check identity of body
25. Helicopter in the sky and pan down to the street and people running past
26. Wide shot of building and pan to smoke as shot hits gym
27. Army unit walking through scene, zooms to close up of soldier's machine gun
28. Soldier pointing weapon
29. Soldier on the ground pointing weapon
30. Large plume of smoke rises from school, loud boom of explosion
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Russia's hostage crisis erupted into explosions, gunfire and screams of fleeing children on Friday as commandos stormed the school where militants strapped with bombs had held as many as 1,200 people hostage.
More than 150 people were dead, and officials said the toll could rise significantly.
Hours later, Russian forces still were engaged in a fierce fight to free captives, including children, said Valery Andreyev, the region's Federal
Security Service chief.
Reports said three militants were blockaded in the basement and were trading fire with troops.
Twenty militants were killed in gunfights with security forces - 10 of them Arabs, Andreyev said in televised comments.
The scene around the school was chaotic. Under the sound of gunfire and explosions paramedics, soldiers and civilians helped to move people onto stretchers and into ambulances.
Emergency service workers had to move the dead from their stretchers to re-use them as wounded adults and children streamed out of the school.
Women escaping the building were seen fainting and others, some covered in blood, were carried away on stretchers.
Many children were only partly clothed because of the stifling heat in the gymnasium where they had been held since the militants took the building Wednesday.
Inside the school, the bodies of some 100 dead hostages lay in the
gymnasium where the captives had been held since the raid on Wednesday morning, reports said, some apparently killed when a roof collapse that followed explosions as the crisis came to a head.
Andreyev said 79 victims had been identified.
Andreyev said 556 people were hospitalized, including 332 children, while Emergency Situations Ministry officials put the number of hospitalized at
646, 227 of them children.
A local legislator, Azamat Kadykov, had told the hostages' relatives that 20 adult men had been executed.
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Remembering Beslan - 01 Sep 08
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For the residents of North Ossetia the conflict between Russia and Georgia has brought back painful memories of their own tragedy.
It's four years since Chechen rebels took over 'School Number One', holding teachers and pupils hostage for 3 days. In a botched rescue attempt more than 330 people were killed.
Nazanine Moshiri reorts on the people of Beslan who are finding comfort in helping their South Ossetian neighbours, who have been caught up in the fighting.
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Live | Beslan: A memorial for the victims of the Beslan school attack by Chechen separatists
A memorial service is held in central Moscow to mark the 15th anniversary of the Beslan school attack by Chechen separatists, which left 333 people dead, many of them children.
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Terrorism, Russia: Beslan Hostages
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Russia: Beslan Hostages
In September, on the first day of the Russian school year - a day much-honoured in Russia - a group of heavily armed Chechen militants entered Number 1 school in the provincial town of Beslan, near the borders of Ingushetia and Chechnya. Firing their weapons and shooting at people trying to escape, they rounded up about 1200 young children, parents and teachers who were meeting to celebrate the start of the year, and ordered them into the school gymnasium. Sixteen people were killed in the initial attack. As negotiators scrambled to find a way out of the tense standoff, crowds of distraught relatives and townspeople waited helplessly for news, their distress sharpened by the sporadic rattle of gunfire and explosions from the cordoned-off school. Militants released videotape showing their captives huddled on the floor of the gymnasium, surrounded by explosives rigged to go off if the building was attacked.
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Beslan - 2 September 2004
Various exterior shots of gymnasium at Beslan Number 1 School where hostages were held
Russian security forces and crowds in the street near armoured vehicle
Soldiers standing in the street, UPSOUND explosion
Women sitting outside with blankets around them, holding their heads in their hands
Two days later, Russian commandos stormed the gymnasium. First reports said the attack was triggered when militants shot at a group of women and children trying to escape. Later reports suggested local people had first fired weapons at the gymnasium from outside the school grounds, causing the militants to think they were being attacked. As the commandos stormed in, hundreds of hostages fled the building, many bloodied and screaming. Many children were only partly clothed because of the stifling heat in the gymnasium where they had been held. The militants detonated explosives during the raid, collapsing the roof of the gymnasium onto hostages below. Some of the militants escaped, and were pursued in the surrounding area by Russian troops. Distraught relatives gathered outside Beslan's hospital trying to locate loved ones. Bodies of children were laid out on stretchers under a grove of trees near the hospital for identification, while nearby crowds of people scanned lists of names of the injured posted on an outside wall.
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Beslan - 3 September 2004
Wide shot of school with smoke coming from the building, zoom into people running from building, UPSOUND gunfire
Hostages running from the scene, soldiers running
Soldiers helping two semi-naked girls away to medical area
Wide shot of soldiers and medics tending to injured victims on stretchers
Woman being taken away faints and is placed on stretcher
Soldier aiming weapon
Soldier on the ground, aiming rifle
Little girl with bandage on her head being carried from the building and put into a car
Tilt up from boy on stretcher to another boy, with bloody legs, being put into ambulance
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Beslan - 3 September 2004
Wide shot of school building, white smoke rising from collapsed roof, UPSOUND gunfire
Mid shot of men hosing down fire inside the building
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Beslan - 3 September 2004
Various shots of people crouching near building
Men hosing down fire, UPSOUND gunfire
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Beslan - 3 September 2004
Two dead bodies lying on grass, covered by white sheets
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Beslan - 3 September 2004
Woman crying over two dead children
Women crying, pan shot of medical staff
People looking at lists of names posted outside hospital
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Beslan - 4 September 2004
Various shots of Russian President Vladimir Putin entering hospital room and meeting a woman and a child injured in the Beslan siege.
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Vladikavkaz - 4 September 2004
Russian Pool
Beslan - 4 September 2004
Bodies of militants
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Footage of school; troops outside; relatives await news
(2 Sep 2004)
1. Security forces and people in the street near tank
2. Soldiers standing in the street (AUDIO of EXPLOSION)
3. Soldiers walking into building passing residents waiting in the street
4. Women sitting outside with blankets around them burying their heads in their hands
5. Women standing talking
6. Soldiers walking in the street
7. Various of troops gathered around a tank
8. Woman standing rubbing her face then walking towards others waiting
9. Security members walking quickly into building
10. Crowd gathered outside Hall of Culture, several hundred metres (yards) from Number One School
11. Design on the wall
12. Crowd gathered around official shouting
13. Soldiers standing
14. Crowd bound official
13. Women listening
14. Soldiers with dog on porch of house
15. Various of soldiers in the street
16. Security at roadblock
17. Close shot, gun
18. Soldiers
19. Roadblock, pan across road
20. Various, women looking on
21. Woman crying
22. Soldiers
23. Set up shot
24. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Major General Valery Andreyev:
We identified several of the hostage takers. We're trying to locate their relatives to help us to convince their relatives to help us influence hostage takers.
25. Soldiers
26. Close shot, gun
27. Various exteriors of gymnasium where hostages are being held including close ups of windows
28. Various, tank and people on street
29. Body lying on grass outside school
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Heavily armed militants, many strapped with explosives, were holding more than 350 hostages including children for a second day on Thursday inside a provincial Russian school as negotiators scrambled to find a way out of the tense stand-off.
Crowds of distraught relatives and townspeople waited helplessly for news of their neighbours and loved ones, their distress sharpened by the sporadic rattle of gunfire from the cordoned-off crisis site.
The raiders reportedly have threatened to blow up the school if police storm it, but what they wanted and who they were remained unclear.
Negotiations via phone continued on-and-off throughout the night and early morning, involving well-known paediatrician Leonid Roshal, who aided hostages during the deadly seizure of a Moscow theatre by Chechens in 2002.
The hostage-takers had demanded his participation.
The school in Beslan, a town of about 30-thousand is in North Ossetia, near the republic of Chechnya where separatist rebels have been fighting Russian forces since 1999 and suspicion in the raid fell on Chechen militants although no claim of responsibility has been made.
Casualty reports in the raid varied widely, but an official in the joint-command operation for the crisis said on condition of anonymity early on Thursday that 16 people were killed - 12 inside the school, two who died in hospital and two others whose bodies still lay outside the school and could not be removed because of gunfire - and 13 others wounded.
However, an aide to the North Ossetian president, Lev Dzugayev, said on Thursday that seven were killed.
He also gave the number of hostages at 354.
President Vladimir Putin, who interrupted his working holiday in the Black Sea resort of Sochi to return to Moscow for the second time in a week, also postponed a planned two-day visit to Turkey, due to start on Thursday, the Kremlin said.
However, he has made no public statement - a characteristic Putin strategy during crises.
Heavily-armed militants wearing masks descended on Middle School No. 1 shortly after 9 am on the opening day of the new school year
on Wednesday.
About a dozen people managed to escape by hiding in a boiler room, but hundreds of others were herded into the school gymnasium and some were placed at windows as human shields.
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LIVE Russia mourns Beslan school siege victims 10 years on
A mourning ceremony and other events will be held to mark 10 years since the Beslan school siege, which saw over 300 people, 186 of them children, killed.
The site of the tragedy, former school #1 in Beslan, a small town in Russia’s North Ossetia, will become the centre of the remembrance ceremonies which have been annually held since 2005.
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Mothers Of Beslan School Massacre Victims Detained For Protest At Memorial
Five women were detained on September 1 for protesting at a memorial for Russia's Beslan school massacre 12 years ago. The women -- four of whom lost children in the tragedy -- wore t-shirts that read Putin is the executioner of Beslan. The tragedy left 334 people dead, including 186 children.
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Russians Observe 11th Anniversary of Beslan School Attack
This week, Russians have been observing the 11th anniversary of the attack by Islamic militants on a school in Russia's North Caucasus region that killed more than 330 hostages, including 186 children. The three-day siege and massacre that started on September 1, 2004 took place in Beslan, a town in the republic of North Ossetia, and is one of the bloodiest terrorist acts ever in Russia. VOA's Mike Richman reports.
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Kremlin slams European court ruling on Beslan siege as 'unaccaptable'
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Moscow failed to take steps that could have averted a hostage siege in the Russian town of Beslan in which more than 330 people were killed.
Memorial marks Beslan school massacre in Moscow
(3 Sep 2019) Mourners gathered in Moscow on Tuesday to remember the victims of the Beslan school siege, fifteen years after the tragedy took place.
A crowd placed flowers and released white balloons in front of Saint Virgin Mary's church to pay their respects to the victims.
At least 334 people, including 186 children, were killed in 2004 when a hostage crisis involving Chechen militants and 1,100 hostages turned violent.
The group of 32 militants held the hostages in a school in Beslan, North Ossetia-Alania region, for three days before Russian security forces stormed the building with tanks and heavy weapons.
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The Horrible Aftermath of the Beslan Massacre
Bella in Beslan (2006): This documentary shows how the victims of Beslan school siege cope with life after the massacre.
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Russia: Beslan mourns victims of 2004 deadly school siege
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Hundreds of people came to Beslan's school number one on Sunday, to honour the memory of people who died in a school siege 15 years ago.
The school bell rang starting the flower laying ceremony at 9:15 Moscow time - the time the first shots were heard back in 2004.
In 2004 terrorists seized the school and captured more than 1100 people including school students, their parents and teachers on September 1, which is officially the first day of school in Russia. Hostages spent three days in the school sports hall without food or water.
The Beslan school siege left more than 330 people dead including 186 children with 800 people injured.
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LIVE: Moscow remembers Beslan school massacre victims
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A memorial service for victims of the terrorist attack in Beslan is held at the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the 15th anniversary of the tragedy on Tuesday.
After the service people who were present at the Beslan siege including former hostages, special forces veterans who rescued people, and doctors who treated them, bring flowers and release 334 balloons in memory of the victims.
On September 1, 2004, militants from the North Caucasus region seized the school and held 1,000 people captive for three days without food or water.
The siege ended on September 3, leaving more than 334 dead, the youngest victim was only two years old.
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A Prayer for Beslan (2005): Beslan will forever be synonymous with the murder of hundreds of innocent children. One year on, how is the town coping?
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A harrowing and powerful documentary on the school siege and its enduring legacy. From the vilified headmistress to the bewildered local MP and grieving families, it depicts a once idyllic town now torn apart by anger.
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ECHR rules on deadly 2004 Beslan hostage siege
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Russia failed to take preventative measures ahead of the deadly Beslan school siege in North Ossetia. In September 2004, masked gunmen seized a school and wired it with explosives.
They were demanding an end to the war in neighbouring Chechnya. When Russian security forces intervened, the hostages were caught in the cross fire. Three hundred thirty-three people, including 186 children died that day. TRT World's Dana Lewis has more from London.
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