Did Anyone Watch Dispatches Last Night?

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It was all about the tragedy in Beslan last September when terrorists entered a school and held everyone hostage.

Watching it all again was just as sad as watching it at the time.

Around 350 people were murdered, half of them children. This documentary included interviews with some of the survivors and some of those who lost their children and loved ones.

One woman said she tried to carry her son out of the school but her right arm was injured so she went to get help. She said she then saw soldiers storming into the building opening fire so she headed back to the room her son was in and begged a terrorist to let her get her son. He punched and kicked her, telling her she'd be killed. She then said, "It was at that moment I knew I'd never see my little boy again."

She was right.
 
Phil, you are absolutely right. :angry:

This was a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, horrible, horrible, horrible tragedy and not one of us should forget for a single moment just what a terrible, terrible time this must have been for all of those involved. :o

However, we should remain happy that Captain Deleter was not a terrorist, otherwise the terrible, terrible tragedy could have been so much worse.
 
I didn't watch it because I'm a hormonal mess and would've blubbed all the way through it and for days afterwards. There can be nothing worse than your child dying at school. For five years we nurture them and then we have to put our faith in the school to look after them for us for a few hours five days a week. I must be a bit odd because I don't like my children being at school. Yes I send them there every day but I'm happier when they're at home with me so that I know they are safe.
 
I blubbed all the way through the news coverage of the evacuation at the time it happened. Just seeing the wee mites brought out, shellshocked and half-naked, was bad enough. I wimped out of revisiting the awfulness through survivors, I'm afraid. So many wicked, wicked things done in the name of this or that these days, so much life cut short. I despair that we humans represent the highest form of intelligence, and the best that God - for those who believe - can come up with. I'm hoping we're just a first draft, and that He's got something properly worked out somewhere else.
 
Like Krizon above I too swerved watching the programme. Watching events live as they unfolded at the time was so upsetting that I deliberately avoided the programme. An enduring image of absolute horror that will remain with me for a long time was that of a little girl bloody and injured blown out though a window by an explosion who immune from the shouts of the soldiers outside proceeded in her confusion and shock to clamber back in through the window to certain death.
 
I saw part of this and it just adds to the sickening despair that is becoming ever present for me. As one ,without religion, who tries to see the good in people and to understand the things that drive people to become evil I find the current crop of people who have absolutely no feelings towards the rest of humanity totally beyond comprehension.

What is worse I find myself becoming more and more inclined to support drastic action to deal with the likes of those people who deliberately set out to kill those innocent children.
 
To be honest I find it hard to turn away from reports and documentaries like that simply because I feel I should be aware of them.

Take absolutely nothing away from the horrors of London and Omagh etc but the sites of last night and what is happening in Iraq and the near famine in Niger puts what Sky News would make is think is the end of the world occuring in London into some sort of crazy context the world is in right now.
 
Originally posted by Aidan@Jul 22 2005, 10:50 PM

Take absolutely nothing away from the horrors of London and Omagh etc but the sites of last night and what is happening in Iraq and the near famine in Niger puts what Sky News would make is think is the end of the world occuring in London into some sort of crazy context the world is in right now.
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I agree. My eight year old daughter watched the news at 10 with me tonight (purely because she's staying up to watch Titanic for the 847th time) and we were both upset by the people in Niger. She couldn't believe that a rat was being shared amongst a family of six.
 
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