The Belsan siege / [videorecording].
Material type: PicturePublication details: [US] : Discovery channel, 2005.Description: 1 videodisk (DVD) (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 inSummary: On September 1st 2004, in the small town of Beslan in the Russian republic of Ossetia, a school was seized by a group of terrorists predominantly from the neighbouring republics of Chechnya and Igushetia. The world's media instantly turned its attention to this terrible drama, broadcasting almost without interuption the saga of the fate of the 1288 hostages - children and adults- held inside the school. And then just 2 and a half days later, with the terrorists demands for the withdrawl of Russian troops, from Chechnya not met, the hostages were killed, 178 of them children, as a fire fight broke out between the terrorists and the Russian military that were by now surrounding the school.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Videos and DVDs | Australian Emergency Management Library | VIDEO | DVD SO 013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 900163338 |
Originally screened on Discovery Channel 22 October 2005.
Staff only collection - not available for general loan
On September 1st 2004, in the small town of Beslan in the Russian republic of Ossetia, a school was seized by a group of terrorists predominantly from the neighbouring republics of Chechnya and Igushetia. The world's media instantly turned its attention to this terrible drama, broadcasting almost without interuption the saga of the fate of the 1288 hostages - children and adults- held inside the school. And then just 2 and a half days later, with the terrorists demands for the withdrawl of Russian troops, from Chechnya not met, the hostages were killed, 178 of them children, as a fire fight broke out between the terrorists and the Russian military that were by now surrounding the school.
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