Beslan School Massacre -- 5 Years Later

Beslan: 5 Years Later (Special from RT Television)

Survivors Remember Russia's Beslan Massacre -- AFP

BESLAN, Russia — Five years on, Russian authorities have not learnt from the Beslan hostage siege, survivors of one of Russia's worst massacres in recent memory said Tuesday as they marked its grim anniversary.

Several hundred relatives and survivors gathered at the crumbling ruins of School Number One in this southern town to commemorate the hostage disaster that took the lives of over 330 people, including 186 children.

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More News On The Beslan Massacre

Russians mark 5 years since Beslan school tragedy -- AP
Beslan mourns deadly school siege -- BBC
Five years on, survivors remember Beslan slaughter -- AFP
Russians mark 5 years since Beslan school tragedy -- NPR
FEATURE-Wounds from Beslan school siege still not healed -- Reuters
The children of Beslan five years on -- BBC
Beslan: 5 Years Later and the Jihad Still Growing in Russia -- Java Report
Russia Now - Five years after the school siege in Beslan -- The Telegraph
The Beslan attack: 5 years later -- Michelle Malkin
Remembering the Massacre at Beslan-- 5 Years Ago Today -- Gateway Pundit
The Faces Of Beslan -- Radio Free Europe
In Pictures: 'Beslan Commemoration in Russia' -- M&C

My Comment: My mother called and asked me this morning if I had forgotten what today is (she checks this blog every morning) .... I (of course) knew the answer .... the anniversary of the start of World War II .... and Beslan. My nieces and nephews are the same age as the children who were brutalized in Beslan .... going to the same type of schools that dot much of what was once the Soviet Union. Beslan will be a mark on the Russian psyche for a very long time .... and in my life time it will never be forgotten.

As I explain to my American friends .... Beslan is Russia's 9/11 ..... but worse because the target and the victims were children.