Our dead and injured children
Beslan was barbaric - so has been Russia's reign of terror in Chechnya

Barbaric action against civilians beget barbaric acts against civilians, not submission in Chechnya.

I find it hard to understand how this massacre in Beslan has shocked so much many people who had not been much troubled by the death of tens of thousands of people in Chechnya. Is the average person, the average journalist, the average political or military analyst or the average politician so mediocre a human being that they can´t understand suffering if they don´t see it in live television coverage?