RUSSIA: TODDLER ALOYNA TSKAYEVA IS YOUNG SURVIVOR OF BESLAN SCHOOL SIEGE DURING WHICH HER MOTHER AND SISTER WERE KILLED ONE YEAR AGO
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RUSSIA: TODDLER ALOYNA TSKAYEVA IS YOUNG SURVIVOR OF BESLAN SCHOOL SIEGE DURING WHICH HER MOTHER AND SISTER WERE KILLED ONE YEAR AGO
- Title: RUSSIA: TODDLER ALOYNA TSKAYEVA IS YOUNG SURVIVOR OF BESLAN SCHOOL SIEGE DURING WHICH HER MOTHER AND SISTER WERE KILLED ONE YEAR AGO
- Date: 30th August 2005
- Summary: 1. SLV ALYONA TSKAYEVA, SURVIVOR OF BESLAN SCHOOL SIEGE, PLAYING OUTSIDE 0.10 2. CLOSE OF ALYONA'S GRANDMOTHER, KLARA GASINOVA, WATCHING HER GRANDDAUGHTER PLAY 0.15 3. KLARA GASINOVA AND BORIS GASINOV, WIDE OF GRANDPARENTS OF ALYONA, STANDING IN FRONT OF HOUSE, WATCHING ALYONA 0.20 (BN7) BESLAN, NORTH OSSETIA, RUSSIA (RECENT) (REUTERS) 4. CLOSE OF TOY ANIMALS LAID IN FRONT OF DESTROYED SCHOOL 0.25 5. WIDE OF BURNT DOWN ROOF OF THE SCHOOL GYMNASIUM, PAN DOWN TO BURNT OUT GYMNASIUM HALL 0.38 (BN7) BESLAN, NORTH OSSETIA, RUSSIA (FILE - SEPTEMBER 1, 2004) (VIDEO FILMED BY HOSTAGE TAKERS) 6. WIDE OF CHILDREN AND PARENTS SITTING AS HOSTAGES IN GYM OF SCHOOL 0.42 7. ZOOM INTO MASKED MILITANT CONNECTING WIRES TO EXPLOSIVES IN GYM 0.46 8. PAN TO SCARED FACES OF HOSTAGES WITH THEIR ARMS AROUND THEIR HEADS 0.48 9. ZOOM INTO MASKED HOSTAGE TAKER STANDING NEXT TO BOY WITH FOOT ON HOSTAFGW TAKER ON MECHANISM CONNECTED TO EXPLOSIVE 0.52 (BN7) BESLAN, NORTH OSSETIA, RUSSIA (FILE - SEPTEMBER 1, 2004) (REUTERS) 10. SLV RUSSIAN SPECIAL FORCES HIDING BEHIND WALL AND FIRING 1.00 11. VARIOUS OF RUSSIAN SOLDIERS HUDDLED TOGETHER, MAN WALKING AROUND WITH GUN, SOLDIER RUNNING WITH RELEASED WOMAN AND CHILD 1.04 12. CLOSE OF SCARED FACES OF WOMEN STANDING OUTSIDE SCHOOL, SOUND OF GUN SHOTS 1.08 (BN7) BESLAN, RUSSIA (FILE - SEPTEMBER 2, 2004) (REUTERS) 13. SLV RUSSIAN SPECIAL FORCES SOLDIER CARRYING SIX-MONTH-OLD ALYONA IN HIS ARMS 1.14 14. SLV RUSLAN AUSHEV, A SIEGE NEGOTIATOR AND EX-PRESIDENT OF RUSSIAN REPUBLIC OF INGHUSETIA, STANDING BY CAR AFTER HAVING NEGOTIATED RELEASE OF TWENTY SIX INFANTS AND MOTHERS 1.18 15. VARIOUS OF RUSSIAN SPECIAL FORCES SOLDIER CARRYING SIX-MONTH OLD ALYONA TO CAR, CLOSE UP OF ALYONA CRYING 1.23 (BN7) VLADIKAVKAZ, NORTH OSSETIA, RUSSIA (RECENT) (REUTERS) 16. CLOSE UP OF ALYONA 1.29 17. STILL PICTURE OF ALYONA'S MOTHER FATIMA AND ALYONA'S NINE-YEAR-OLD SISTER KRISTINA, WHO DIED IN SCHOOL SIEGE 1.33 18. VARIOUS (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) GRANDFATHER OF ALYONA, BORIS GASINOV, SITTING HOLDING HIS GRAND DAUGHTER, SAYING: "They (the hostage-takers) agreed to receive Aushev and he negotiated with them the release of small babies and their parents, all together twemtu sox, no twenty seven people. Our daughter took Alyona out and handed her over and then returned to the school to be with her daughter Kristina and her son Mahairk. She could not leave them there, so she returned." 1.59 19. WIDE OF GRAVE OF MOTHER FATIMA AND DAUGHTER KRISTINA WITH THEIR PICTURES 2.12 20. CLOSE OF FLOWERS ON GRAVE 2.17 21. CLOSE OF ALYONA'S GRANDMOTHER PUTTING PHOTO OF HER DAUGHTER AND GRANDDAUGHTER WHO DIED DURING SCHOOL SIEGE, ON SHELF 2.25 22. CLOSE OF ALYONA LOOKING AT PHOTOGRAPH 2.31 23. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) ALYONA'S GRANDMOTHER, KLARA GASINOVA, SAYING: "In the beginning, at night, she used to cry, she cried a lot, probably she was having nightmares. And what I another kind of loud noise, it scares her. She immediately runs to me and screams 'Grandma!, Grandma!". Maybe she still remembers something. When there is thunder she is also very scared." 3.03 24. SLV GRANDPARENTS WATCHING ALOYNA AS SHE PLAYS WITH TOY 3.07 25. CLOSE UP OF ALYONA'S HAND ON TOY 3.10 26. CLOSE UP OF ALYONA PLAYING 3.18 27. VARIOUS OF (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) ALYONA'S GRANDMOTHER, KLARA GASINOVA, SAYING: "Everyone around here is surprised with me, because I used to be a very sick person. But with her all my illnesses have disappeared. I used to call the ambulance a lot, but now, with her here, I have got strong." 3.33 28. VARIOUS OF ALYONA'S GRANDMOTHER WASHING TEA CUPS 3.43 29. CLOSE UP OF ALYONA'S GRANDFATHER / ALYONA LOOKING AT HER BROTHER'S PHOTOGRAPH 3.54 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: VLADIKAVKAZ AND BESLAN, NORTH OSSETIA, RUSSIA
- Country: Russia
- Reuters ID: LVA7JXBFN0TH6PIB0ZHGPTKP78BO
- Story Text: Young survivor of a school siege in Russia the only bright hope for
her grief stricken family.
Little Alyona Tskayeva is a happy and playful child and a survivor
of the school siege in Russia's Beslan a year ago.
But grief still marks the face of Alyona's grandmother
Klara Gasinova as she watches her granddaughter play.
Alyona's mother Fatima and her nine-year-old sister
Kristina Tskayeva became two of the 331 victims of the
three-day siege, sparked when Islamist gunmen seized the
school on Sept. 1 and demanded Russia end its 10-year bid
to crush Chechen separatism.
Alyona, only six-month old at the time, was one of the
29 toddlers released after negatiaton efforts by Ruslan
Aushev, the ex-president of the Russian Republic of
Ingushetia.
She was carried out of the school in the arms of a
Russian special forces soldier. A photographer captured the
soldier looking gently down into her face and the two of
them became an iconic image of the three-day siege that
ended in a bloodbath.
"They (the hostage-takers) agreed to receive Aushev and
he negotiated with them the release of small babies and
their parents, all together 26, no 27 people. Our daughter
took Alyona out and handed her over and then returned to
the school to be with her daughter Kristina and her son
Mahairk. She could not leave them there, so she returned,"
recalls Alyona's grandfather Boris Gasinov.
One day after Alyona's release, the stand-off at the
school collapsed into a bloodbath. Gunfire and a blaze
swept the school, and more than a quarter of the 1,200
hostages were killed. They included Alyona's mother and
sister. Her brother Maharik managed to escape the ensuing
carnage.
Photographs of Fatima and Kristina stand on a shelf in
Alyona's grandparents' apartment, where she has been living
since. Occasionally Alyona glances at the pictures, but
then quickly looks around for a toy to play with.
Her grandmother, Klara Gasinova, says Alyona used to cry
for her mother at night, but says time has faded most of
her memories.
"In the beginning, at night, she used to cry, she cried
a lot, probably she was having nightmares. And what I
notice now, is when there is a sound of drilling, or
another kind of loud noise, it scares her. She immediately
runs to me and says Grandma!, Grandma!. Maybe she still
remembers something. When there is thunder she is also very
scared," she said, as she smiled fondly down at her
18-month-old granddaughter.
Gasinova says her granddaughter has given her the
strength to carry on after the siege shattered their lives
and plunged her family in deep mourning.
"Everyone around her is suprised with me, because I
used to be a very sick person. But with her all my
illnesses have disappeared. I used to call the ambulance a
lot, but now, with her here, I have got strong," Gasinova
said.
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