“Voice of Beslan” committee member Ella Kesayeva tells “Echo of Moscow” that they hold the authorities responsible.

According to Kesayeva, 89 persons signed the complaint, and maintain that they became “victims of human rights abuses in that the Russian authorities did not provide security for its citizens from the very first, nor did (the government) prevent armed rebels from entering the school and seizing it.”  As E. Kesayeva said, the complaint states that “after the hostages were seized, the authorities didn’t consider it necessary to protect the lives of the maximum number of persons by means of compromises and negotiations; in carrying out an assault, the authorities acted without regards to the possible negative effects on the lives of people”.