MOSCOW - One of the MPs investigating the the Beslan school siege in which 331 people died has released a report that blames the Kremlin for the death of more than a third of the hostages, whose safety, he suggests, was not a priority.
Yuri Savelyev, an MP and member of the official parliamentary inquiry panel, claims that Russian forces deliberately stormed the school on September 4, 2004, using maximum force.
His account suggests the Government disregarded the safety of the women and children cowering inside the school in southern Russia and that it was more interested in killing the pro-Chechen terrorists than saving the hostages.
According to Savelyev's 700-page report, Beslan: the Hostages' Truth, special forces fired rocket-propelled grenades without warning as a prelude to an armed assault, ignoring the fact that negotiations were apparently still going on.
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