The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has awarded about €3 million in compensation to victims of terror attack on a school in the Russian town of Beslan. Applicants also believe that assault was poorly organized and that there was no proper investigation into the events.
"Serious failings" by Russian authorities led to the deaths of hundreds of innocent civilians during a siege on a school, a European Court has ruled.
The militants were demanding the withdrawal of Russian troops from the war-torn republic of Chechnya.
Armed radical Islamic assailants seized the school on the first day of class, prompting a long standoff that ended in explosions and gunfire. The terrorists forced more than one thousand hostages, including small kids, into the school's gym and kept them there for three days without food and water.
Only one of the hostage takers was caught alive and put on trial.
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For more than a decade, survivors and relatives have been asking whether the siege could have been prevented and whether so many people had to die in the rescue operation.
Survivors and relatives say Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin, mishandled the hostage crisis and ignored intelligence indicating that a hostage-taking scenario was being planned.
More than 400 of them have applied to the court in Strasbourg in the hope that it can deliver answers.
What has the court ruled? A further 750 people were wounded when security forces, which the court said used "tank cannon, grenade launchers and flamethrowers", moved in to free more than 1,000 hostages at Beslan. According to the Strasbourg court, Russian authorities were aware of the planned terrorist attack but did not take necessary measures to prevent the tragedy. Countries must comply with the court's verdicts, although the court can not directly enforce this.
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