18 January 2007, 22:47
Beslan victims ask to hear Saveliev's report
The victims of the terrorists' capture of Beslan school No. 1 (North Ossetia) have sent an open letter to the deputies of the parliament of the republic with a request to hold hearings of Yuri Saveliev, a member of the federal parliamentary commission for investigating the act of terror, who has prepared an alternative report. The letter was signed by 145 victims of the terror act, the "Interfax" reports.
Mr. Saveliev's report "Beslan: Hostages' Truth" differs essentially almost on all points of investigation held by the parliamentary commission. Deputy Saveliev is Doctor of Technical Sciences, highest category expert in the field of combustion and explosion physics and professor who earlier headed the St. Petersburg Military-Mechanical Institute.
In the opinion of the deputy, the investigation of the reasons and circumstances of the act of terror in Beslan, which was conducted for more than two years by the commission directed by Alexander Torshin, vice-speaker of the Council of the Federation, was not properly completed.
