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[KavkazUzel] The director of the school museum dedicated to the Beslan tragedy is ready to share a number of exhibits with the new museum, which is being created directly on the site of the terrorist attack. The victims and relatives of the victims expressed their hope that the new museum would help preserve the memory of the incident.
The "Caucasian Knot" wrote that the activist of the "Voice of Beslan" Emma Tagaeva opposed the construction of the museum. Until the investigation into the terrorist attack in Beslan is completed, the construction of a museum on this territory could destroy the evidence. The "Mothers of Beslan" committee, on the other hand, is in favor of the construction, saying that it will become a place of consolidation of people.
On September 1, 2004, terrorists took 1,128 hostages at School No. 1 in Beslan. The operation to free them ended on September 3, 2004. As a result of the attack , 334 people died , 186 of them were children. Another 810 people were injured. 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 was planned from the beginning, despite the protests of local residents. The presidential envoy also confirmed that the school was fired from a tank.
A museum is needed at school No. 1 in Beslan, said Nadezhda Gurieva, a history teacher, director of the school museum at the new school and victim of the terrorist attack.
"The fact that the museum was needed was clear from the very beginning, while still sitting in the gym, I understood that this would have to be done. Of course, then I did not impose such a function on myself, but when everything was over, it became clear to me that nobody not necessary, and we began to collect it all with the children. And when they built a new school, they all moved there. Among the exhibits there are those that cannot and cannot be exhibited at school because of their size and emotional impact," she said.
Nadezhda Gurieva has no doubts that the school where the attack took place should have a museum. "This should be a museum not only of our terrorist attack, but of all the terrorist attacks that took place in North Ossetia, about which no one remembers and does not know," she is sure.
The walls of the former school were conserved from further destruction, and the previously lost building was recreated. The center "Beslan. School No. 1" will host an exposition dedicated to the Beslan tragedy. It is supposed to use modern museum technologies. Design decisions were discussed with the "Mothers of Beslan" committee and the victims of the attack, the press service of the government of North Ossetia reported on its website on August 10.
Nadezhda Gurieva calls the idea of the International Cultural and Patriotic Center "Beslan. School No. 1" "not bad".
"Such a center, in principle, is needed. But where it was built, it was impossible to build it. This place, its new building part, where almost all of the special forces died - eight people out of 10. It was necessary to build in a different place, also on the school grounds, but there was another place. I don't mind, but is it a museum at the center or a center at the museum? They still haven't decided and haven't they understand how it should work. In addition, they do not have exhibits to exhibit there. I will not give them anything from our museum," Gurieva told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
However, according to her, she has material for the new museum. "There are a lot of property from the old school. There are boards, doors, tabletops with fragments, there is some furniture, paintings that were given to us, which cannot be placed in the school museum either due to their size or semantic impact. There are many children's drawings. From of each class that we entered, we took something away from there, they lie there. It can be done in a very interesting and different way," she said.
Nadezhda Gurieva believes that the arguments of Emma Tagaeva from the "Voice of Beslan" against the construction of the museum, due to the fact that evidence can be destroyed, are not tenable.
"The school was without a roof for seven years, and all the evidence that could still be found there simply fell off and was thrown away over the years. Both the roof and the ceilings collapsed. It had to be strengthened so that someone else would not be killed there," she said.
According to Gurieva, she goes to the old school all the time. "My feelings in this matter must be taken into the fist and hidden deeper, because I constantly bring people there: students, children, military, foreign delegations. There are a lot of people," she said.
Representatives of the "Mothers of Beslan" committee at today's press conference said that preserving the memory of the tragic events is one of the main tasks after the investigation of the terrorist act. Construction reconstruction and conservation measures on the territory of school No. 1 have been completed, said Aneta Gadiyeva, deputy chairman of the organization.
According to her, now the main task is to fill these rooms with expositions and new meanings, including through personal stories to convey, talk about those problems and the pain that these people endured.
The director of the Victory Museum Alexander Shkolnik, who was recently in Beslan, was involved in the implementation of this project.
"We hope that it will be a world-class museum, the Center for Combating Terrorism, where people from all over the world will come and they will know that their story is being told here too. We hope that by the 20th anniversary (of the attack) it will be operational", - said Aneta Gadieva. The entire school will be involved in the implementation of the project, she noted.
The daughter of Nadezhda Gurieva, Irina, on September 1, 2004, together with her mother, sister and brother, came to the school line. Everyone was taken hostage. Irina's brother and sister died.
“I remember a lot. There is no such thing that in these 19 years a complete realization of what happened has come. Every year you grow up and begin to understand more and more, so every year it becomes harder and harder. Because you realize what a tragedy and how terrible it is. The end of August and the beginning of September is the most difficult time for me when you are completely immersed in events," said Irina Gurieva .
The daughter of Bela Tsgoeva, a teacher at school No. 1 , Alina, received shrapnel wounds to her knees as a result of the terrorist attack, and was treated for a long time. Now Alina is already married and has two children.
“It’s like it happened yesterday. Everything is so fresh in my memory, where she was sitting, where she was standing, who was sitting next to her, how she behaved there, how she got out of there. Everything, everything, everything. When you come there, you want to be very loud cry, because in fact it does not go anywhere, it is constantly remembered. Every time the soul hurts the same way, it is always with us. These 19 years are like 19 days," said Bela Tsgoeva.
Tsgoeva supports the idea of creating a museum on the territory of school No. 1. “We won’t forget it ourselves, we won’t forget it, but a museum is a memory, a part of the history of what once was. It’s not for one year, it’s for centuries. I believe that a museum should be, only I have no idea where they will get so much material from," said Bela Tsgoeva.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on April 13, 2017, the ECHR recognized the violation of the rights of the relatives of those killed and injured during the seizure of the Beslan school in 2004 and awarded 409 applicants compensation for a total of 2.955 million euros and another 88,000 euros as compensation for legal costs.
In September 2019, the Ministry of Justice reported on the payment of compensation. Russia ignores the conclusions of the ECtHR and refuses to investigate the circumstances that led to numerous casualties among the hostages, activists Ella Kesaeva and Aneta Gadieva said. The authorities are obliged to execute the decision of the Strasbourg Court in its entirety, not limited to the payment of compensation, lawyers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" pointed out.
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