Pengepungan sekolah Belsan

Pengepungan sekolah Beslan (juga disebut sebagai krisis sandera sekolah Beslan atau pembantaian Beslan) yang dimulai pada 1 September 2004, berlangsung selama tiga hari, melibatkan penangkapan lebih dari 1,100 orang sebagai sandera (termasuk 777 anak-anak), dan berakhir dengan tewasnya sekitar 385 orang. Krisis tersebut dimulai ketika sekelompok teroris Islamis bersenjata, sebagian besar Ingush dan Chechen, menduduki Sekolah Nomor Satu di kota Beslan, Ossetia Utara (sebuah republik otonomi di kawasan Kaukasus Utara, Federasi Rusia) pada 1 September 2004. Para penyanderanya adalah Batalion Riyadus-Salikhin, yang dikirim oleh panglima perang Chechen Shamil Basayev, yang menginginkan pengakuan kemerdekaan Chechnya, dan penarikan diri PBB dan Rusia dari Chechnya.

Referensi

Bacaan tambahan 
 Beslan: Shattered Innocence by Lynn Milburn Lansford (ISBN 1-4196-3995-1)
 Beslan: The Tragedy of School Number 1 by Timothy Phillips (ISBN 1-86207-927-7)
 The 2002 Dubrovka and 2004 Beslan Hostage Crises: A Critique of Russian Counter-Terrorism by John B. Dunlop (ISBN 3-89821-608-X)
 The Beslan School Siege and Separatist Terrorism by Michael V. Uschan (preview available)
 Terror at Beslan: A Russian Tragedy with Lessons for America's Schools by John Giduck (ISBN 978-0-9767753-0-0)
 The Beslan Massacre: Myths & Facts by Alexander Burakov (ISBN 978-1-5004-0096-5)

Pranala luar 

 Les archives de Beslan: Database of French and foreign archives devoted to the hostage-taking of School No. 1 in Beslan.
 "Tragedy in Beslan. Five years later. We remember…." EMERCOM.
 "Beslan school tragedy." Directory of related articles from The Guardian.
 "В память о погибших..." City of Beslan. 
 The School.  Feature by C.J. Chivers. Esquire, June 2006, Volume 145, Issue 6. Last Retrieved 16 November 2009.
 Chechen rebels' hostage history, BBC News, 1 September 2004
 Aching to Know, by Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times, 27 August 2005.
 Beslan Timeline: How the School Siege Unfolded, by Kelly McEvers, NPR, 31 August 2006
 Pravda Beslana, public investigation of Beslan events (Beslan's Truth, ).
 Voice of Beslan 
 Hope for Beslan . Last accessed 4 October 2007
 Day-by-day transcriptions from criminal trial , . machine translation. Last Retrieved 17 July 2006.
 Memorial Page for the Victims of Beslan
 Remembering Beslan: A Crime Against Humanity
  French humanitarian association "Solidarité Enfants de Beslan"

Foto dan video 
 
 In pictures. The Beslan School Siege, The Guardian, September 2004.
 Russian TV broadcasts siege video, BBC News, 7 September 2004
 New Video Of Beslan School Terror, CBS, 21 January 2005
 Photo report by the German journalist Christian Kautz, visiting Beslan school at 2005 
 Beslan. To remember school siege victims, BBC News
 "Missing hostages' photos", Novye Izvestia. 
 Pictures of children, teachers and parents who were killed during the event at the Voice of Beslan website.
 Fund for victims of Beslan attack. Last accessed August 1, 2006.
 Russian Red Cross Beslan page. Last accessed August 1, 2006.
 Slavic Gospel Association (SGA) Beslan page . Last accessed February 4, 2008.

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