(Beslan, North Ossetia) The Russian school in Beslan is located in North Ossetia near Chechnya, where the murdering separatists have been fighting for independence from Moscow for a decade. They fight by killing innocent women, children, and infants.
Casualty reports from Wednesday's terrorist attack on the school vary from 200 to over 250 dead with hundreds more hospitalized in "grave condition." The total dead and injured is expected to increase as debris is removed and buried bodies are discovered. Conflicting reports pepper the casualty numbers and the status of the pursuit for the terrorists.
A number of hostages, covered in blood, were carried away in stretchers to local hospitals or a makeshift field hospital set up several kilometres from the school. Several bodies covered in white sheets are lying on the ground near the field hospital. [Pictured below is the horror in a photo by Sergey Ponomarev for the Associated Press.]I've been closely following the tragedies in Russia for the past couple weeks. The downing of the two Russian passenger airliners, the bombing at the Moscow metro station, and now the attack on the Beslan school have overtaken my emotions. I feel so, so sorry for the people who have had their lives demolished by cruel madmen. I feel the uncontrollable tears in their eyes, the emptiness in their hearts, and the deep unremitting pain in their souls. I feel the same way I did on September 11, 2001.
Desperate family members crowded around lists of the dead and injured posted on hospital walls.
And I feel rage. The people responsible for these crimes against humanity need to be found and killed, preferably slowly and painfully, while they are hungry, while they are thirsty, and while their bodies, day after day, are frozen with fear. That's how the children died.
The Command Post provides additional coverage and informative links. Michelle Malkin follows up on the "Sophie's Choice" story of a mother forced to choose saving her daughter or her son. Go visit.
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