Presidential representative Dmitry Kozak convinced the Beslan mothers not to file suit in the European Court of Human Rights, but to appeal to the "higher courts" of Russia.
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Beslan Mother Wants Government Leaders Charged
September 1 was City Day in Moscow, the 860th anniversary of its founding. While various events were being held around Moscow to celebrate the occasion, the mothers of children killed in the seizure of School No. 1 in Beslan three years ago gathered on Bolotnaya Square to mark the Day of Memory of the Victims of Beslan. Several hundred people attended the meeting, including human rights movement leaders. Speakers addressed the attendees from the bed of a truck on which a backdrop of pictures of the victims had been mounted.
The Beslan mothers distrust the investigation of the tragedy, which has found “no representatives of authority guilty.” They are demanding that the Prosecutor General's Office initiate criminal cases against members of the command staff for the release of the hostages, and against FSB chief Nikolay Patrushev and former head of the Security Council Vladimir Rushailo. They accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of lying and protecting the guilty parties in the tragedy. “After the president of Russia, I hope, leaves,” Ella Kesaeva, head of the Voices of Beslan organization said, “we will ask the next president to bring the case to an end.”
Kesaeva said that her organization is practically inactive in North Ossetia, because “trustworthy” people who will not make “anti-Putin speeches” have been appointed to head the branch. Another Beslan mother noted that there are plans to tear down the remains of School No. 1. “The guilty parties can't wait to the memory of their criminal act from the face of the earth, under the specious pretext of building a church in its place” Emilia Bazarova said.
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