Beslan Victims Name Guilty
The Supreme Court of North Ossetia proceeded yesterday with the case of Nurpasha Kulaev, the only militant to survive the hostage-taking tragedy in Beslan last September. Relatives of children killed in the seized school have applied to call to account the enforcement bosses. One of the former hostage said he was told not to mention the weapons hidden at school.
The Court proceeded with interrogating Beslan victims. Kazbek Dzarasov, who previously insisted the weapons had been hidden at school, was the first to take the floor. Dzarasov said he saw Kulaev in the gym-hall and in the corridor in front of the room, where militants were shooting the men. He was dressed in camouflage with a physical fitness uniform under it. Kulaev whispered he wore a white tee-shirt, not camouflage. As to the weapons, Dzarasov specified he hadn’t seen the weapons himself. “We were forced to break the floor, then told to leave and another group was let in. They are all dead now,” Dzarasov emphasized. But some time latter, after the women in court called him a coward, Dzarasov shouted in return that people in camouflage came to him at night, ordering to shut up.
Another former hostage Svetlana Dzebisova said teacher Alexander Mikhailov was taking out the weapons from under the stage in the school hall, at least he told her so himself. “He said the weapons could be found not only there,” Dzebisova pointed out.
“The guilty is watching this Court on TV,” Kulaev spoke in a low voice, when a woman asked him, who is to blame.
In the end, the former hostages and relatives of the dead children have applied to Russia’s Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov calling for the criminal cases against Federal Security Service Director Nikolay Patrushev, his deputies Vladimir Pronichev and Vladimir Anisimov, former head of the North Ossetia’s Department of the Federal Security Service Valery Andreev and head of the Russian Interior Ministry Rashid Nurgaliev.
The trial was cut off till Thursday.
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