Every parent's nightmare just came true in Russia:
Chechen terrorists (male and female) have seized school #895 in Beslan, North Osetia. They are holding 600 students, parents and teachers. They demand the release of 27 terrorists who were recently arrested in a raid in Ingushetia. Terrorists have mined the area around the school, and reportedly the female terrorists are wearing suicide belts. Terrorists have announced, via a loudspeaker, that they will kill 20 students for each terrorist killed by the police. They have also made the students stand in order to prevent the police from shooting at the windows. About the school. School #895 has a capacity of 895 students and 59 teachers.
Today was the first day of school for these kids. The blogger at Logic & Sanity is fluent in Russian and is translating the wires every 15 minutes or so (more here on Yahoo). Shots and fires have been reported from inside the school.
I was going to say that hanging's too good for these scum, but now that I think about it, tar-and-feathering, draw-and-quartering, and the guillotine is too good for 'em, too. Nothing I've read so far leads me to be optimistic. One of the commenters on LGF has an apt statement about the event:
The face of evil. Look well upon it, world. Stop making excuses for it and start dealing with it as it deserves.
Update: I was right to be pessimistic. Now I'm just enraged.
Posted by kswygert at September 1, 2004 12:07 PM