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This Friday, September 1, marks the second anniversary of Russia’s “9/11” — the atrocious seizure of more than 1,128 hostages in a Beslan school, which left more than 330 — most of them children — ...
On September 1, 2004, Chechen militants stormed an elementary school in the town of Beslan in the Russian republic of North Ossetia. They took 1,100 teachers, children, and their relatives hostage, ...
"The Beslan attack took place against a backdrop of five years of widespread, persistent, and largely unpunished human rights violations by Russian troops against civilians in Chechnya as well as ...
The name Beslan remains synonymous with horror. It is the name of the southern Russian town where a school siege in 2004 ended with the deaths of more than 300 hostages - half of them children. Yet ...
Sept. 1 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1715, France's King Louis XIV died after ruling the country for 72 years, the longest reign for a French monarch. In 1807, Aaron Burr, vice president of the ...
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/4826372/4828341" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> A new ...
Just days before the third anniversary of the massacre in the primary school, authorities declare the main group committed to shedding light on the tragedy illegal. “The Beslan Mothers” meanwhile ask ...
A judge in Southern Russia convicts a Chechen man of taking part in the Beslan school siege two years ago. The assault killed more than 330 people — more than half of them children. Nurpashi Kulayev ...
Court: There were "serious shortcomings" in the Russian investigation into the attack The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that there had been “serious failings” in the Russian ...
Five years have passed since pro-Chechen terrorists seized School No. 1 in Beslan, a city in the North Caucasus, provoking a hostage crisis that ended in the massacre of 146 adults and 186 children.
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