Thursday, September 01, 2005

Beslan: Putin To Be Invited To Court

gazeta.ru

(excerpts, my quick tr.)

The "Mothers of Beslan" will invite Vladimir Putin to court. The invitation will be made on Friday in Moscow, during the meeting of the Mothers of Beslan with the President. On Thursday the themes of this meeting were discussed in Beslan.

In Beslan mourning events continue on the occasion of the anniversary of the tragic events in School No. 1. As gazeta.ru has already noted, after the morning visit of the burned down gymnasium of the school, where the greater part of the children who were taken hostage perished, behind closed doors a meeting took place between the plenipotentiary of the President in the southern region Dmitry Kozak with the activists of the committee of mothers. As gazeta.ru explained, at the meeting with Kozak relatives of the dead children said that at tomorrow's meeting in the Kremlin they will make requests of President Putin.

After the meeting was concluded, Ella Kisayeva, the representative of the "mothers of Beslan" recalled that some the relatives have spoken out against the trip to Putin.

However, in connection with the fact that four people nevertheless decided to go, the rest asked that a request be conveyed to Putin to appear in the law court at the proceedings concerning the terrorist act and to explain his actions of 1-3 September last year.

As head of the commission for the distribution of aid to victims of the terrorist act Mairbek Tuayev noted, at the meeting of the residents of Beslan with Kozak the mothers of those who perished also stated that they have very many questions about the investigation of the terrorist act. "Yet in spite of this, the public prosecutor's office, in the person of Nikolai Shepel [deputy public prosecutor], instead of rendering assistance and protecting the rights of law-abiding citizens, has gone over to the other side ", says Tuayev.

According to him, at the meeting there was no discussion of the appeal of the residents of Beslan for political asylum in other countries (The letter, which was disseminated in Beslan today on behalf of almost five hundred inhabitants, has been reported by gazeta.ru in detail.) "Actually this is the first I have heard of this. I have heard nothing about it and I do not want to develop this theme. Five minutes ago I met with Susanna Dudiyeva (head of the "Mothers Of Beslan" committee), and she said nothing about any appeal."




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