The Tragedy At Beslan
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A makeshift memorial wall displays photographs of many of those who died in the siege. - Yury Savelyev, an explosives expert and State Duma deputy, published a report confirming the battle was triggered by soldiers firing grenades from a building across from the school.
![Nur-Pashi Kulayev, the only surviving Beslan terrorist, was sentenced to life in prison on May 26, 2006. - Survivors and victims' families remain embittered because only one person, Nur-Pashi Kulayev, was convicted. Three local policemen implicated in the event were also given amnesty. ''We are absolutely convinced that [government officials] want to forget Beslan,'' Ella Kesayeva, who lost two nephews in the tragedy, told RFE/RL. ''The authorities don't want to hear or know anything about Beslan.''](https://gdb.rferl.org/dc52f0d3-5ac2-466a-961b-94434d101199_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Nur-Pashi Kulayev, the only surviving Beslan terrorist, was sentenced to life in prison on May 26, 2006. - Survivors and victims' families remain embittered because only one person, Nur-Pashi Kulayev, was convicted. Three local policemen implicated in the event were also given amnesty. ''We are absolutely convinced that [government officials] want to forget Beslan,'' Ella Kesayeva, who lost two nephews in the tragedy, told RFE/RL. ''The authorities don't want to hear or know anything about Beslan.''
![Beslan relatives demonstrate outside Kulayev's trial in May 2006, holding anti-Putin placards. - ''I have the impression that we will never know the whole truth, just like with [the deadly 2002 Moscow theater seige at] Dubrovka,'' Caucasus analyst Aleksei Malashenko told RFE/RL. ''In the end, interpretations that suit the authorities will be offered, because there has been practically no open, independent investigation. Everything was under control.''](https://gdb.rferl.org/95cedabf-5dbb-4133-9f38-478548febfbd_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Beslan relatives demonstrate outside Kulayev's trial in May 2006, holding anti-Putin placards. - ''I have the impression that we will never know the whole truth, just like with [the deadly 2002 Moscow theater seige at] Dubrovka,'' Caucasus analyst Aleksei Malashenko told RFE/RL. ''In the end, interpretations that suit the authorities will be offered, because there has been practically no open, independent investigation. Everything was under control.''
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Family members expressed their anger in court in 2007 after three policemen implicated in the event were given amnesty. - Survivors are not alone in distrusting the official version of events in Beslan.