BESLAN, BUILDER OF PEACE
Beslan must never be forgotten.
Beslan is the homeland of all the tears shed by the Mothers of the Earth.
Beslan is the wounded heart of Humanity.
For the Righteous of the world, Beslan must remain a symbol of the deepest suffering of a
humanity that is broken, grieving, and incapable of living in peace, serving as a reminder
that the murder of a people and their children should never be used to achieve political ends.
Twenty years after the massacre of its children at the hands of international terrorism, we propose the City of Beslan, and its martyred people, as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize
This is to reaffirm the world’s rejection of terrorism, and to support the efforts of those who continue to help Beslan heal from the relentless evil of the slaughter of its children.
THE APPEAL
WE NOMINATE THE CITY OF BESLAN FOR THE 2025 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
No, there is no pain in the world deeper than this.
Beslan is the homeland of all the tears shed by the Mothers of the Earth.
Since September 3, 2004, Beslan has become synonymous with eternal sorrow,
tempered only by solidarity and shared grief. A small town, unwillingly transformed into a symbol of courage, resilience, and unfathomable, unending suffering.
The name Beslan now carries the same weight as Auschwitz, Buchenwald, My Lai, Marzabotto.
The magnitude of the pain inflicted and endured at Beslan cannot be expressed in words.
No language on earth holds a term that can give sound to such vast, oppressive sorrow.
This is a collective pain, the pain of an entire people, an entire community. A pain so profound it suffocates and destroys.
Beslan is the wounded heart of Humanity. Those wounds have yet to heal—perhaps they
never will—but the echo of the children’s tragedy, reminiscent of Herod’s slaughter, still reverberates across the globe.
From the three days of apocalypse at School No. 1, Beslan has slowly risen to become a PEACE BUILDING CITY.
Those three days remain engraved in the hearts and minds of millions of people of different religious/spiritual believes and nationality.
What began as an unspeakable tragedy has evolved into an extraordinary path toward Peace. Born from immense grief, this movement has grown into a powerful, unstoppable force for collective peace.
The survivors, their civil associations, the victims’ families, and the entire community of Beslan now embody the triumph of life over death, of Peace over the brutality of terrorism.
Beslan is a lesson—one that is alive and ongoing. It teaches brotherhood, solidarity, and active, practiced compassion.
The children of Beslan have taught the world many things. They have taught us courage, and shown that Good can prevail over Evil, Life over death.
They have cried out for Peace.
Today, Beslan stands as a symbol of Peace, coexistence, tolerance, and acceptance.
It is a city that has made an extraordinary contribution to promoting a world grounded in the values of Peace, brotherhood, and shared humanity.
For these reasons, we, the citizens of many nations, signatories of this appeal, call for the City of Beslan to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
NORWEGIAN NOBEL COMMITTEE
Henrik Ibsen gate 51
0255 OSLO – NORWAY
BESLAN: THE FACTS OF AN IMMENSE TRAGEDY
According to official data, at the time of the terrorist assault on the school, 1,116 people were taken hostage. Of these, 17 male adults were executed by the terrorists on the first day as retribution for the government’s withdrawal from negotiations, while 3 others were killed near the school on that same day. Of the remaining hostages, 284 were killed by bombs placed by the terrorists inside the school, as well as during the subsequent rescue operation. Another 13 people died in the following days from injuries sustained during the attack.
On September 3, two rescuers were killed while attempting to retrieve the bodies of victims from the first day of the siege. That same day, 10 members of the Russian special forces lost their lives during the assault to free the hostages, while 3 civilians were killed in the process, and 1 later died from injuries.
Total number of victims: 334, including 186 children, 9 of whom were of preschool age.
Victims by grade level:
– 18 first-grade students; – 15 second-grade students; – 21 third-grade students; – 21 fourth-grade students; – 16 fifth-grade students; – 28 sixth-grade students; – 13 seventh-grade students; – 13 eighth-grade students; – 22 ninth-grade students; – 9 tenth-grade students; – 1 eleventh-grade student
In 66 families, between 2 and 6 members were killed. Seventeen children were left completely orphaned.
A total of 810 people were injured, including hostages, members of the Special Forces, FSB (Federal Security Service), MCS (Ministry of Emergency Situations), MVD (Ministry of Internal Affairs), and the Army—479 of whom were children (44 of preschool age).
Among the seriously injured, 163 people were affected, 97 of whom were children (6 of preschool age).
72 children and 69 adults were left permanently disabled. In addition to these physical injuries, the attack left behind a trail of heart attacks, suicides, and lasting psychological trauma…
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