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Aleta Gasinova and Saneta Sabanova remind UN members about Beslan tragedy  Aleta Gasinova and Saneta Sabanova, victims of the terrorist capture of the school in Beslan, were at the UN headquarters in New York today, attending a symposium on support for victims of terrorism. They talked about the horrors they lived through, and the loss of relatives and friends. Saneta, the youngest participant at the symposium, stated that, in Beslan, there are still many victims who are in need of medical treatment, and she urged the UN to assist them.«We came from the city of Beslan, in Russia, a place the whole world heard about on September 1st, 2004. On that September morning, when 1,200 children and teachers gathered for an assembly on Knowledge Day, terrorists seized the school. They took hostage everyone who came for the event,» recalled Aleta Gasinova, a teacher at the school. On that day she brought her two young daughters to school. Held captive were the young teacher, her two daughters, and their grandfather, who had worked as director of the school for more than 30 years. Aleta Gasinova reported that, during the first days, the militants shot all the men who could help them resist, then they watched the suffering of the desperate women and children who drank their own urine, and chewed the leaves of houseplants to alleviate their thirst. The four hostages sat on a single square meter of floor in the gymnasium, where the hostages had been taken. The terrorist attack ended with the deaths of 354 people, 186 of them children. Saneta Sabanova talked about how, on September 1st, 2004, she went to the school with her sister and grandfather. «We were taken hostage. At first no one understood what was happening, but after the terrorists began putting booby traps in the room, and shooting at the ceiling and killing people before our very eyes, we realized that a catastrophe had befallen us,» said the girl. She stressed that her mother, after hearing about the terrorist attack, asked to be taken hostage, and stayed with them. The girl believes that they survived only because of her mother's support. The symposium's youngest participant told how children suffered and died. Both Beslan residents appealed to the international community to do its utmost to ensure that nowhere in the world would such an incident happen ever again.
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