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Beslan school siege ten years later

2014-08-31 18 Dailymotion

It's been ten years since a deadly three-day school siege in the North Ossetian town of Beslan.<br/> <br />On September 1, 2004, more than a thousand parents and children arrived for the first day of school, only to be taken hostage by heavily armed Chechen rebels.<br/> <br />On the third day of the siege, hundreds were killed in a series of sudden explosions and fire fights -- it's still not clear what sparked the carnage.<br/> <br />Witnesses in Beslan have said they saw Russian forces fire at the school -- something Russian officials have denied.<br/> <br />An official investigation found that negligence and incompetence by Russian police and some officials had contributed to the bloodbath.<br/> <br />But victims' relatives are still angry that those at the top were never held to account.<br/> <br />And some fear such a tragedy could happen again.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Russian) SUSANA DUDIYEVA, HEAD OF BESLAN MOTHERS' COMMITTEE, SAYING:<br/> <br />"Nothing has changed. Corruption is flourishing as before, bureaucratic s

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