Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW
Vol. 5 Num 115 Fri. September 17, 2004  
   
Letters to Editor


School siege in Beslan


The pictures of the children being carried out of the school in Beslan, their naked bodies splattered with blood, filled me with sorrow and anger. No excuse exists for the slaughtering of innocent civilians. No excuse exists for taking children hostage, blowing up planes, or suicide bombings. Those responsible for such carnage have forfeited their right to be called human beings.

Whoever was involved in planning and executing this terrible massacre against innocent civilians, would be sharing the same evil intentions of Putin, the war-criminal who was the force murdering more than 250,000 Chechen civilians beside hundreds of thousands of injured, displaced and handicapped as a result of his genocide in Chechnya. The innocent civilians who were the victims in Chechnya, North Osetia, are as equally innocent and oppressed as the children, women, and other civilians who were the victims in the school siege in Beslan.