Exhibition about Beslan terror act impresses Volgograd residents

In Volgograd, the NGO "Mothers of Beslan" presented an exhibition of photographs and paintings about the seizure of hostages by terrorists in a Beslan school. The Beslan tragedy still terrifies people even 16 years later, visitors of the exhibition note.

The events of the project "To Remember in Order to Live" are being held in seven regions of Russia, including North Ossetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Dagestan, Karachay-Cherkessia, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Volgograd, the Centre for Culture and Youth Policy reports.

"The cities for holding the exhibitions were selected not by chance: all those cities suffered from terror acts," said Anastasia Mingalimova, the director of the Centre for Culture and Youth Policy.

Aneta Gadieva, the co-chair of the "Mothers of Beslan" Committee, reports that five out of the eleven members of the "Mothers of Beslan" Committee who brought the exhibition to Volgograd were taken hostages in Beslan: at that time, they were two or three years old.

In the exhibition guest book, residents of Volgograd note that the event helps people unite against terrorism. "People around the world who have honour and conscience should unite and actively fight against terrorism, extremism, and nationalism," wrote Richard Danakari, the head of the regional public organization "Nidj".

Aneta Gadieva believes that the law enforcement bodies had the information about the impending terror act, but did not take any measures to prevent it. According to the co-chair of the "Mothers of Beslan" Committee, there are still unanswered questions concerning the use of flame-blast weapon and tanks during the assault of the Beslan school seized by the terrorists.