A woman mourns during a ceremony commemorating the people who died during the 2004 Beslan hostage crisis at the southern Russian town’s School Number 1 in Beslan, Thursday. Moscow’s campaign against Islamist insurgents reached a watershed in September 2004, when heavily armed Chechen gunmen seized a school in Beslan. When the siege ended three days later, 334 people - 1/2 of them children - were dead. Killed by Russian storm troops. |
