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Communist Lawmaker Accuses Putin of Provoking Clash in Beslan School Mos
News A Russian opposition lawmaker on Monday accused President Vladimir Putin of ordering special forces to fire grenades at the Beslan school tragedy in 2004, the Associated Press reported. On September 1, 2004 the school was seized by militants with over 1,000 students, parents and teachers hostage, the fire prompted the chaotic climax of the three-day ordeal that led to the deaths of 334 people, more than half of them children. Prosecutors say the blasts were detonated by the militants inside the school, but two dissenting members of a parliamentary commission that investigated the attack contend the explosions were caused by grenades fired from outside. “The explosion at the school was provoked by the security forces, they fired from grenade launchers,” Communist lawmaker Yuri Ivanov told reporters. “This order could have been given only by one man — President Vladimir Putin.” The lawmaker claimed the government wanted to put an end to the seizure to prevent rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov from negotiating with the militants, as he was reported to be planning to do. Ivanov’s claims are based on a probe into the school seizure conducted by his colleague in the committee, nationalist lawmaker Yuri Savelyev, who is an expert on explosions and fires. Dmitry Peskov, a senior Kremlin spokesman, declined to comment on Ivanov’s allegations, saying the parliamentary committee’s conclusions were “serious and unbiased.” The committee laid blame on local, not federal, officials for failing to prevent the attack and said they did not do enough to save the victims during the rescue operation. It did not accuse the security forces of causing the explosions. ---------------------------------------------------
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