On September 3, on the seventh anniversary
of the terrorist
attack against Beslan school YABLOKO held a series of
pickets in Moscow. (On September 1, 2004, terrorists held
1,100 hostages, mainly schoolchildren, in one of Beslan schools
for three days: 334 people including 186 were killed and over
800 people were injured. Yet the case still remains uninvestigated
and Senator Torshin, head of the Parliamentary Commission
for investigation of the act of terror has been keeping silent).
Zoya Shargatova, Deputy Chair of the Moscow
branch of YABLOKO and party activists Gleb Sitnikov, Zoya
Gulyaeva and Ilona Korovchenko, held banners "Seven years
after. Who is liable?" by Public Prosecutor General’s
office and the Federation Council. Another banner “Torshin,
how about the truth about Beslan?" addressed Senator
Alexander Torshin, head of the Parliamentary Commission on
investigation of the circumstances of the tragedy.
Police officers and representatives of the Federal Security
Service checked the documents of the activists and took down
their passport data, however did not interfere with the picket.
For the seven years since the tragedy the society still has
not been told the truth about Beslan. The official investigation
and the parliamentary commission did not name those liable
for the failure of the rescue operation and the lies about
the circumstances of the siege and the number of hostages,
and a catastrophic storm with flame guns and tank fire.
These and other questions from the people who survived the
tragedy, mothers of the dead children, and all who care about
the truth about Beslan have still remained without answers.
A memory action devoted to the Beslan tragedy also took place
in St. Petersburg. The participants of the rally lit 334 candles
- one per each victim. The candles were lined in the word
"Beslan." The action was held without any political
symbols and slogans.
See also:
Human
rights
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