Russians are Killing our Children, So We are Here to Kill Yours

Chechen website quotes Bible to claim carnage as act of legitimate revenge.

Sept. 6, 2004
Jonathan Steele in Moscow
The Guardian

A TV image of a man described on Channel One as one of the hostage-takers in Beslan. Photograph: AP/Channel One TV

Details began to emerge yesterday as to what may have driven the school siege militants, as yet unidentified, to commit such a horrifying act against children. Witnesses reported that the hostage-takers had attempted to justify their brutality by claiming it was an act of revenge for the killing by Russian forces of Chechen children.

Margarita Komoyeva, a physics teacher released the day before the terrible climax in Beslan, said: "One of them told me: 'Russian soldiers are killing our children in Chechnya, so we are here to kill yours'."

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