- Title: RUSSIA: END OF FOURTY DAYS OF MOURNING FOR VICTIMS OF THE BESLAN SCHOOL SIEGE
- Date: 12th October 2004
- Summary: (U4) BESLAN, RUSSIA (OCTOBER 12, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE OF INTERIOR OF ORTHODOX CHURCH IN BESLAN WITH PRIEST CONDUCTING SERVICE FOR ENDING OF 40 DAYS OF MOURNING SCHOOL VICTIMS 0.08 2. SLV WOMEN PRAYING AND CROSSING THEMSELVES 0.15 3. SLV PRIEST CONDUCTING PRAYER SERVICE/ PROCESSING ROUND CHURCH WITH INCENSE 0.23 4. CLOSE OF CANDLES BURNING 0.28 5. SCU WOMAN MOURNER CRYING 0.40 6. WIDE OF CHURCH INTERIOR WITH MOURNERS CROSSING THEMSELVES AND BOWING 0.47 7. WIDE OF RUINS OF GYMNASIUM AT BESLAN'S 'SCHOOL NUMBER ONE' BUILDING / FRESH FLOWERS AND OTHER FLORAL TRIBUTES LEFT IN MEMORY OF THE VICTIMS OF THE SCHOOL SIEGE 0.56 8. SLV CHILDREN WITH THEIR PARENTS PAYING TRIBUTE AT RUINS OF GYM BUILDING/ LYING FLOWERS 1.03 9. CLOSE-UP OF PHOTO OF A YOUNG VICTIM OF THE SIEGE, PLACED NEAR A CROSS INSIDE SCHOOL GYM 1.09 10. CLOSE-UP OF MAN KNEELING AND WEEPING 1.18 11. SLV WOMAN WITH HER TEENAGE CHILDREN INSIDE GYM 1.24 12. WIDE OF INTERIOR OF GYM BUILDING / WOMEN WEEPING 1.41 13. CLOSE OF COLLECTION OF TOYS LEFT INSIDE GYM BUILDING 1.48 14. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) LARISA SUKHAEVA, WHO WAS A HOSTAGE AT THE SCHOOL AND HER 14-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER DIED IN THE SIEGE, SAYING: "Why nobody tried to rescue us? The fighters (hostage- takers) told us that we would find out what kind of a country we are living in; that no one would care about us, and they were right. They told us to pray and we were praying here in this gym and crying but nobody came to rescue us, no one needed us, even now when we are crying here nobody cares." 2.17 15. WIDE OF PEOPLE INSIDE GYM BUILDING 2.27 16. VARIOUS OF UNICEF CHIEF EXECUTIVE CAROL BELLAMY VISITING GYM BUILDING TO PLACE A FLORAL TRIBUTE 2.45 17. CLOSE OF NOTE LEFT ON A FLORAL TRIBUTE WITH A DRAWING OF A WHITE DOVE WITH A MESSAGE WHICH READS: "For you Beslan, for your sadness and bravery." 2.51 18. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) UNICEF CHIEF EXECUTIVE CAROL BELLAMY, SAYING: "Well, I think we can't allow ourselves to feel helpless, I think all of us have to stand against violence against children - stand against violence generally - but particularly violence against children. We should feel empowered in fact to be a voice, and to be..., and to stand for peace and tranquility for children and against violence." 3.14 19. WIDE OF MEN LOOKING AT FLOWERS INSIDE GYM 3.24 20. SLV MAN STANDING AT GRAVE IN CEMETARY 3.28 21. SCU ANOTHER MAN WITH HEAD BOWED WEEPING 3.36 22. WIDE OF MOURNERS STANDING AROUND GRAVE 3.42 23. CLOSE UP OF PHOTO OF YOUNG SCHOOL GIRL 3.49 24. CLOSE OF MAN AND WOMAN TOUCHING GRAVE 3.57 25. CLOSE OF TOY BEAR AND FLORAL WREATH AT GRAVE 4.03 26. SLV WOMAN CRYING AT GRAVESIDE OF YOUNG BOY 4.22 27. CLOSE-UP OF PHOTO OF A VICTIM OF THE SCHOOL SIEGE, A YOUNG BOY, PLACED OVER HIS GRAVE 4.34 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: BESLAN, NORTH OSSETIA, RUSSIA
- Country: Russia
- Reuters ID: LVA2QQOQ2UL3D1L58HCI86MYKGL9
- Story Text: North Ossetians mark the end of 40 days of mourning
for the victims of the Beslan school siege.
The people of the southern Russian republic of North
Ossetia mark the end of 40 days of mourning for the victims
of the school siege in the town of Beslan.
Church services were held in Beslan on Tuesday
(October 12) and across other parts of this southern
Russian republic.
More than five weeks after hundreds of people, half
of them children, perished in the siege of School Number
One, Beslan remains a town reeling from grief, shock, anger
and disbelief.
For Larisa Sukhaeva the suffering has been compounded
by a feeling of helplessness and the absence of any real
assistance by the authorities. She was a hostage at the
school and lost her 14-year-old daughter Albina.
"Why nobody tried to rescue us? The fighters (hostage-
takers) told us that we would find out kind of a country we
are living in; that no one would care about us, and they
were right. They told us to pray and we were praying here
in this gym and crying but nobody came to rescue us, no one
needed us, even now when we are crying here nobody cares,"
said Sukhaeva.
The ruins of the school gymnasium where more than
1,000 people were held hostage by Chechen and Ingush rebels
has been turned into a shrine for the dead.
Hundreds of fresh flowers and tributes have been
placed inside the shell of the gymnasium building where for
two days last month school children, their parents and
teachers were held by some 37 heavily armed rebels.
Russian forces stormed the school on September 3, in
an operation that collapsed into chaos. More than 320
people died, half of them children.
On Tuesday, the head of the United Nations'
Children's Fund (UNICEF) visited Beslan. Carol Bellamy laid
flowers at the ruins of School Number One's gymnasium. She
told reporters at the site that North Ossetians and the
world community at large must not feel helpless in the face
of such a tragedy as Beslan.
"Well, I think we can't allow ourselves to feel
helpless, I think all of us have to stand against violence
against children - stand against violence generally - but
particularly violence against children. We should feel
empowered in fact to be a voice, and to be..., and to stand
for peace and tranquility for children and against
violence," said Bellamy.
The authorities in North Ossetia and Moscow are
concerned that the grief felt by relatives of those who
died in the attack on the school in Beslan could explode
into violence against their Ingush neighbours when mourning
ends.
The Ingush who are predominantly Muslim, and the
Ossetians, most of whom are Christians, have a history of
ethnic rivalry that culminated in a brief but bloody
territorial war in 1992.
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