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| Mystery still shrouds Beslan plot |
| 2005-02-16 |
| Even six months later, their traces remain in the thick snow: the tent strings laced to a tree, the makeshift tap made from a bottle, the rubbish heap. It was here, deep in the woods near the village of Psedakh in Ingushetia, that 32 gunmen gathered in August last year for up to seven days before they took 1,227 people hostage at Beslan's Middle School One. Khamid Tsechoyev, head of the village, pointed at the ground. "There used to be teapots and coffee packets here - a toilet here." Raising his arm to the hills obscured by the forest he said: "Direct, it's 20km to Beslan." Nearly six months after the massacre of 318 hostages, few of the mysteries surrounding the siege of Beslan have been unravelled. A five-month criminal investigation claims to have found some of the pieces of jigsaw, but by no means all. And for the people of Beslan there remains immense frustration that the picture is still unclear. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 there will eventually be serious pay back for this crime. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-02-16 8:24:03 AM |