Horror, Frozen in Time ; for Beslan, Grief Is Inconsolable Series: Second of Two Parts
The Washington Times › December 06, 2004
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Beslan School No. 1 remains an open wound.
No security guards stand on duty. No yellow police tape cordons off the site. No one has bothered to clean up the books, worksheets and school supplies, now covered in a fine layer of dust and grit, that litter every classroom in the school.See the full content of this document
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Horror, Frozen in Time ; for Beslan, Grief Is Inconsolable Series: Second of Two Parts
Three months after the bloody siege by Muslim terrorists that riveted the world, a visitor can walk right into the school's gym, the heart of the horror, its large windows blown out, its red floor and pale walls charred black, only a few burnt rafters interrupting the view of the open sky.
"I come here because I have nowhere else to go," said Alma Khamitseva, whose sister Lema, a single mother of two, was killed in the siege. "I come here, and I cry and feel a little bit better, because I feel her soul is here."Sept. 3 is the date that this small, close-knit southern Russian town became the latest global byword for unimaginable horror, an anonymous place made famous by the evil visit...See the full content of this document
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