Beslan School Siege Survivor’s Account

From Global Voices:

Agunda Vataeva (LJ user agunya) was a 13-year-old girl about to begin her ninth-grade studies on Sept. 1, 2004, the day when she, her mother and more than 1,100 others were taken hostage at School #1 in the North Ossetian town of Beslan. She survived the three-day siege. Her mother, a teacher, didn’t. Of the 334 hostages who lost their lives six years ago, 186 were children.

Agunda is a 19-year-old college student now. In the past three days, she has posted three installments of her recollections (RUS) of Sept. 1-3, 2004, on her LiveJournal and Radio Echo of Moscow blogs.


4 thoughts on “Beslan School Siege Survivor’s Account”

  1. Uh-oh.

    First sign of a possibly dead site: long period of inactivity with no new posts or word from the owners, even though events that normally would be posted about continue to happen.

    Second sign of a possibly dead site: spam posts that remain up without deletion.

    Don’t know if we’re there yet, but this is worrisome.

    Anyone home?

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