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| The 2002 Dubrovka and 2004 Beslan Hostage Crises: A Critique of Russian Counter-Terrorism (Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society 26) | 
| Author: John B. Dunlop
Creators: Donald N. Jensen, Andreas Umland
Publisher: ibidem-Verlag
Category: Book
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Pages: 166
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ISBN: 389821608X
EAN: 9783898216081
ASIN: 389821608X
Publication Date: February 18, 2006
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Meticulous, dispassionate - essential reading March 24, 2006
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The events at School Number 1 in Beslan, in southern Russia, are sometimes described as Russia's 9/11. Beslan and 9/11 were incomparably different. But Beslan was an event of such depravity it must be considered uniquely terrible in its own way. It is difficult to write of the events dispassionately. According to official Russian data, the hostage-taking resulted in the deaths of 330 people between 1 and 3 September 2004, including 317 hostages, of whom 186 were children. The events were heart-breaking. A day of happy optimism when parents and young children were to meet together in a party atmosphere to mark the first day of school, in a tradition that always and everywhere in Russia is the highlight of the school year for Russian children, their parents and teachers, was converted into an unforgettable horror when terrorists took over the school and turned joyful celebration into the worst of nightmares. No fouler atrocity is imaginable.
Professor Dunlop, a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, has written a fascinating and scholarly book covering the Beslan events and the earlier hostage crisis at the Dubrovka theatre in Moscow - two of the most memorable episodes in the presidency of Vladimir Putin. Careful to avoid emotional responses to the events, he succeeds, with forensic skill, in producing meticulously objective accounts of both tragedies.
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