Video proves Beslan cover-up

[Rehmat]

Previously unseen film proves that the bloody end to the 2004 Beslan siege was caused by security forces firing on a school crammed with hostages, not by blasts from within, a victim support group says.

The Beslan Mothers' Committee says the footage disproves the official version that the detonation of a boobytrap device planted by Chechen separatists inside the building caused the carnage at School No.1, in the southern Russian town of Beslan.

Some 333 victims, half of them children, were killed in the siege, which ended in chaos when security forces stormed the school gymnasium to free more than 1,000 children and parents held captive for three days.

Committee head Susanna Dudiyeva said the video supports her conviction that security forces fired two grenade launcher rounds on the sports hall, igniting a fire that quickly engulfed the building.

"Why did they fire where there were children, on the sports hall?" Dudiyeva said to reporters after the film was shown at a local cultural centre this week.

Investigators have yet to deliver a final report on modern Russia's most harrowing hostage tragedy. Relatives of the dead say the videotape, received anonymously by post, supports their conviction that there has been a cover-up.

Beslan video disproves official version -relatives | Reuters

[C-Force]

This is really sickening of you to blame the victims and not the perpetrators.

[Rehmat]

Lol.....so you think Rehmat made the video,eh!

[C-Force]

That report is great material for your cause, isn't it?

[CastleStormer]

So let me make sure that I understand correctly: children as hostages are drinking urine out of a shoe just to stay alive because they are being held by Islamic extremists....AND THE RUSSIANS ARE THE BAD GUYS?

You people are pathetic!