Mickey Z

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Tuesday, September 07, 2004

Some context on Beslan

“At 5am on 14 April 2002, an armoured vehicle moved slowly down Soviet
Street. A young brown-haired man, covered in blood, his hands and feet
bound, stood onboard. The vehicle stopped and the man was pushed off and
brought over to a nearby chain-link fence. The car took off and there was a
loud bang. The force of the explosion, caused either by a grenade or
dynamite, sent the man’s head flying into the neighbouring street, called
Lenin’s Commandments. ‘It was difficult to photograph the moment, though I
have grown somewhat accustomed to this,’ says a petite greying Chechen
woman, who has spent years documenting what Russia calls its ‘anti-terrorism
campaign’.”

To read the complete article, click here:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,820261,00.html