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World
Shocked, Furious Over Russian Tactics: Report
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Putin
came under criticism over handling the crisis
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CAIRO,
September 6 (IslamOnline.net) - The Russian school hostage crisis that
ended in a bloodbath continued Monday, September 6, to grab the
headlines of major media outlets worldwide, with the Russian
authorities both handling of the crisis and its "lies"
coming to the fore.
The
Russian government admitted that it lied to its people about the scale
of the hostage crisis that ended with almost 400 children, parents and
teachers dead in the school of the southern Russian state of North
Ossetia.
Washington
Post, the leading US daily, said the
extraordinary admission through state television came after days of
intense criticism from citizens, seeing the move to be marking a sharp
turnabout for the government of President Vladimir Putin.
The
broadcast included no apology and referred only to the most blatant
misstatement by officials, the claim that only 354 hostages were
inside the school.
The
Kremlin-controlled Rossiya network also aired gripping, gruesome
footage it had withheld from the public for days and said government
officials had deliberately deceived the world about the number of
hostages inside School No. 1.
Read
the Full Story on the Washington Post..
British
daily the Independent took a humanitarian aspect of the gross
ordeal, covering the mass funeral of the victims and monitoring the
bereaved families of Beslan as they laid their loved ones to rest.
The
daily was there at the highly emotional burial of the dead in a
sprawling field on the outskirts of Beslan, where a lust of revenge
mixed with grief prevailed.
The
paper carried a detailed expression of feelings and scenes.
"One
boy broke down in the hall, fell to his knees and started sobbing
uncontrollably as he clutched a radiator while small candles flickered
in the afternoon gloom."
Read
the Story of the Independent in Full..
Another
US major daily dealt with the aftermath of the horrifying ordeal,
drawing a picture of how Moscow was, following the bloody end to the
siege.
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The
bereaved families of Beslan began to lay their loved ones to rest
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New
York Times portrayed how Moscow has
slipped into an anguished funk after shocking scenes of dead or
terrified children filling the television screens after a near-news
blackout during the days of the hostage-taking.
Still,
in the days after the deadly hostage-taking, a sense of dread,
fatalism and futility has spread through Moscow.
A
festive annual City Day weekend was canceled and the government
announced two days of mourning culminating in plans for a huge rally
on Tuesday near Red Square.
The
paper quoted Russians believing the wave of attacks have been linked
to a decade-long separatist war in Chechnya.
Read
the Story of New York Times in Full..
The
Guardian, another British daily, covered the political aspect of
the crisis, lingering on Russian mistakes and the implications of the
war in Chechnya.
The
Europeans were reported by the daily to have joined the fray, with the
first muted criticisms of Russia's handling of the siege - and the
protracted Chechen crisis - emerging at the weekend amid outpourings
of humanitarian sympathy.
The
Dutch government, which holds the European Union presidency, asked the
Russian authorities to explain "how this tragedy could have
happened".
Diplomats
at Valkenburg in the Netherlands, where EU ministers met, said Latvia,
the former Soviet republic, had also pressed other states to react
more strongly to Russia's conduct of the security operation.
In
London, the Conservative foreign affairs spokesman, Michael Ancram,
cautioned about the danger of pursuing "military solutions
internally" and urged Putin to refrain from launching a backlash
against the Islamic community in the region.
But
Russia reacted with defiance, denouncing the request by Bernard Bot,
the Dutch foreign minister, for an explanation for the bloody end to
the hostage seizure. The Dutch ambassador in Moscow was summoned to
the foreign ministry on Saturday to clarify Bot's statements.
Read
the Story of Guardian In Full..
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