Beslan school attack, violent takeover of a school in beslan, a city in the north caucasus republic of north ossetia, russia, in september 2004. Parallels in the nature and preparation of the attack have been drawn with the beslan school siege in north ossetia, russia, in 2004. 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. 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. There were also claims that a snipers nest on the sports hall roof had been set up in advance. School terrorism timeline and information safe havens international. The beslan school siege also referred to as the beslan school hostage crisis or beslan massacre started on 1 september 2004, lasted three days, involved the illegal imprisonment of over 1,100 people as hostages including 777 children, and ended with the deaths of at least 334 people. The cia world fact book entry on russia gives viewers a brief. School seized by unknown gunmen, shots exchanged with. A little confusing on the chronology, but a very good account. The school terrorism website was created for the book innocent targets. The twoway russian officials were warned of an attack on a school and used powerful weapons such as tank cannon, grenade.
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. The scale of the violence at beslan and, in particular, the fact. Our interactive timeline, allowing you to see the relationship between the events of 911, those that. In her book female suicide bombers, rosemarie skaine provides further insight into the. Russian media report that attackers are wearing suicidebomb belts and threatening to blow up school. How the school siege unfolded read a timeline of the threeday school siege in beslan, russia, in september 2004. The massacre sent shockwaves through the country and the pakistani taliban was widely condemned.
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