23:31, 4 April 2007

Dudieva: gym of Beslan school should be left as it is

Susanna Dudieva, chair of the "Beslan Mothers" Committee, thinks that neither a temple nor a mosque can replace the "live" evidence of the Beslan tragedy - the gym. "The school gym should be kept as it is in the capacity, if the word can suit here, of a historical value. The gym is the tragedy venue. We think that the gym is not subject to renaming. It cannot be named a preaching, exhibition or excursion hall. And it cannot be a part of a temple," Susanna Dudieva told in her interview to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot."

We remind you that when Ravil Gainutdin, Chairman of the Russian Board of Muftis, paid his recent visit to Beslan, he regretfully noted that he saw only an orthodox cross in the gym, while there was no Muslim symbol - the crescent - in the place of the tragedy. The Mufti noted that there were believers of various confessions among the victims, including 178 Moslems.

Author: Alexandra Kondrasheva, CK correspondent