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Revisiting Beslan
IT IS nearly one year since the Beslan tragedy. Yet those scenes of naked, terrified children running for their life are still as fresh ever in our collective memory. It was not Russia's own September tragedy, as President Putin put it. It was more than that. It was a tragedy for the whole world. All parents, children and people everywhere must have shared the pain and anguish of Beslan children and their parents.
But even as the world revisits the Beslan tragedy, prompted by the trial of the lone alleged hostage-taker, it cannot help but remember the criminally inept handling of the crisis by the Russian authorities. It's all the more so for the unfortunate people who lost their children in the school siege by Chechen separatists. More than 300 people, most of them school children, died in the siege last year. No wonder mothers who lost children in the tragedy are angry with the Russian authorities and President Putin. As the trial of the sole siege suspect opened on Wednesday, a group of 15 mothers launched an angry attack on the Russian leadership blaming the president for the killing of their children.
This was no irrational outburst of angry parents. The Russian authorities have yet to offer a credible explanation why the Beslan school siege ended in a terrible tragedy. The world including unfortunate parents of those innocent children has yet to know why the Russian authorities chose to storm the school knowing full well that the hostage takers had their guns pointed at defenceless children. A government's resolve not to bow to terrorists is fine. But shouldn't the Russian government have tried to negotiate with the hostage takers considering an attack on the school was almost certain to lead to a tragedy? These questions will continue to haunt Putin as long as he lives.
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