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2024-08-21 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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'Mothers of Beslan' remind Putin about the lack of results of the investigation into the terrorist attack
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] The militants who carried out the terrorist attack in Beslan
 ...One of Shamil Basaeyev's most Islamic atrocities, a massacre of schoolchildren in the town of the same name, in 2004...
received support from abroad, the Russian president said at a meeting with the "Mothers of Beslan". 20 years after the terrorist attack, its investigation has not been completed, the mothers of the victims and the dead reminded.
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As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, the Russian president today visited the building of school No. 1 in Beslan for the first time since the terrorist attack that took place in 2004, although he had previously been in Beslan several days after the terrorist attack and in 2008. He also visited the memorial to the victims, before which he knelt and crossed himself.
On September 1, 2004, militants took 1,128 hostages in the gymnasium of School No. 1 in Beslan. The operation to free them ended on September 3, 2004. As a result of the terrorist attack, 334 people were killed, including 186 children, and another 810 people were injured. The "Caucasian Knot" has prepared a report "Terrorist attack in Beslan (September 1-3, 2004)" and a chronicle of the terrorist attack and the events that followed.
Putin said that the militants who carried out the terrorist attack in Beslan were supported from abroad. "We know very well that from abroad they tried not only to justify this terrible crime, but also provided the terrorists with all kinds of assistance: moral, political, informational, financial, and military," follows from a video recording of the meeting published on the Kremlin's Telegram channel.
The Beslan tragedy will remain an unhealed wound in the historical memory of all of Russia, Putin emphasized and expressed condolences to the mothers of the victims of the terrorist attack. He promised that the state would continue to support those affected by the terrorist attack.
The President also stated that Russia's opponents continue to attempt to "destabilize" the country, recalling the Ukrainian military's invasion of the Kursk region.
The "Mothers of Beslan" were outraged at the meeting by the fact that the "investigation" into the terrorist attack in Beslan has not been completed in 20 years.
"They said that we believe that there was no investigation as such. And that we met with him in 2005, and he promised us that he would take control, but this did not happen. And that it was precisely because of this that we did not achieve any truth and went to Strasbourg, which made a decision on this case," the Agency (included in the register of foreign agents) quoted the co-chair of the "Mothers of Beslan" Aneta Gadieva as saying.
On April 13, 2017, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) recognized the violation of the rights of relatives of those killed and injured during the seizure of the Beslan school in 2004 and awarded 409 applicants compensation totaling 2.955 million euros and another 88 thousand euros in legal costs. In September 2019, the Ministry of Justice reported on the payment of compensation.
Russia ignores the findings of the ECHR and refuses to investigate the circumstances that led to numerous casualties among the hostages, activists Ella Kesayeva and Aneta Gadieva said. The authorities are obliged to fully implement the decision of the Strasbourg court, not limiting themselves to paying compensation, lawyers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" indicated.
On January 11, 2022, the Strasbourg court upheld the complaint of 39 more victims of the seizure of the school in Beslan and awarded them compensation for moral damage. The Russian authorities did not take the necessary measures to investigate the circumstances of the terrorist attack and the reasons for the deaths of the hostages, the court decision noted.
According to Gadieva, Putin responded by saying that he was unaware of the protracted investigation. "He said that [it was necessary] to contact [Russian Investigative Committee head Alexander] Bastrykin so that he could get to the heart of the matter and monitor what was happening there, at what stage and what was being done," she noted.
"Mothers of Beslan" also suggested Putin to pass a law on the status of victims of terrorist attacks, so that the victims could solve their social problems and be protected, Gadieva said. "He said that it could be considered. He said that this issue should be raised and discussed by the government," her words are quoted in the publication.
Only 14 years after the tragedy, in December 2018, the presidential envoy to the North Caucasus Federal District, Alexander Matovnikov, made the first official admission since the terrorist attack that the storming of the school had been planned from the very beginning, despite protests from local residents. The presidential envoy also confirmed that the school had been shelled from a tank.
"Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on September 3, 2018, designer Artemy Lebedev stated in his video blog that organizations such as "Mothers of Beslan" and "Voice of Beslan" were speculating on the tragedy for the sake of "political pies." This statement caused outrage among YouTube users and debates about whether the state should help victims of terrorist attacks. The death of children during the terrorist attack in Beslan is as tragic as the death of a child in a traffic accident, he explained his position on September 18 of the same year, calling for "burying the children and moving on."
On August 1, Lebedev spoke again about the activities of organizations involved in helping victims of the terrorist attack in Beslan. The obscene statement caused indignation in the republic. The head of North Ossetia called for "tearing off heads" for such words, and public organizations, having reported statements to the Prosecutor General's Office and the Investigative Committee, called for stripping the designer of state awards and demanded an apology. "Mothers of Beslan" announced a lawsuit.
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