Court sentences sole surviving Beslan attacker to life in prison
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Vladikavkaz - 26 May 2004
1. Wide shot defendant Nur-pashi Kulayev in courtroom behind glass - before verdict is read out
2. Close-up defendant - before verdict is read out
3. Wide shot relatives of victims inside courtroom holding pictures of their dead children and relatives
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Beslan - 3 September 2004
12. Wide shot of School No. 1 with smoke coming from building, zoom in to people running from building,
13. UPSOUND gunfire
14. Hostages running from the scene, soldiers running
15. Soldiers helping two semi-naked girls away to medical area
16. Wide shot of soldiers and medics tending to injured victims on stretchers
17. Woman being taken away faints and is placed on stretcher
18. Wide shot of soldiers and medics tending to injured victims on stretchers
19. Dead bodies lying on grass, covered by white sheets
20. Woman looks at dead body trying to identify victim
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Vladikavkaz - 26 May 2006 (this section was filmed before verdict was read)
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22. Various of relatives arriving in bus
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A southern Russian court on Friday said the sole surviving Beslan school attacker deserved the death penalty, but sentenced him to life in prison because of the country's moratorium on capital punishment.
Nur-Pashi Kulayev was found guilty of taking hostages, responsibility for the deaths of 330 people and of inflicting material damage worth 34 million rubles (US$1.3 million, euro1 million).
North Ossetian Supreme Court Judge Tamerlan Aguzarov said that Kulayev had detonated a bomb that had dealt bodily harm to hostages and government troops.
He said that 16 hostages whom the militants executed on the first day of the assault had died in part due to Kulayev's actions.
Kulayev was also found guilty of shooting children and other hostages who tried to escape the school on the chaos-filled third day of the crisis. He had claimed in court that while he participated in the raid, he did not kill anyone.
Prosecutors had demanded the death penalty for Kulayev, but Russia suspended the death penalty when it joined the Council of Europe a decade ago.
Asked whether he understood the verdict, Kulayev, a Chechen, nodded his freshly-shaved head to indicate yes. He has ten days to appeal against the sentence.
As the judge read the verdict, the mothers of some of the victims threw themselves shrieking on the glass-and-metal cage where Kulayev has stood throughout the year-long trial. Police struggled to restrain them.
Black-clad mothers crowded the courtroom on Friday, the eighth day of the verdict reading, to hear the sentence. Some held banners proclaiming there is no forgiveness of the authorities who let Beslan happen. Others held photographs of tanks and dead children.
The verdict left the victims' relatives sharply divided. On the street outside the court, relatives shouted and tussled with one another and with reporters, after the court session.
Chechen militants seized the School No. 1 in September 2004 on the first day of classes in the southern Russian town.
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00:10:37 1.3 Unresolved conflicts
00:13:07 1.4 Relations between Georgia and the West
00:15:15 2 Prelude
00:15:24 2.1 April–July 2008
00:21:47 2.2 Early August
00:28:50 3 Large-scale conflict
00:29:00 3.1 Battle of Tskhinvali
00:34:16 3.2 Bombing and occupation of Gori
00:38:07 3.3 Abkhaz front
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00:44:34 4 Ceasefire agreement
00:47:16 5 Aftermath
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The Republic of Georgia declared its independence in early 1991 as the Soviet Union began to fall apart. Amidst this backdrop, a war between Georgia and separatists left parts of the former South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast under the de facto control of Russian-backed but internationally unrecognised separatists. Following the war, a joint peacekeeping force of Georgian, Russian, and Ossetian troops was stationed in the territory. Meanwhile, a similar stalemate developed in the region of Abkhazia, where Abkhaz separatists had waged their own war in 1992–1993. Following Vladimir Putin's rise to power in Russia in 2000 and a pro-Western change of power in Georgia in 2003, relations between Russia and Georgia began to deteriorate, reaching a full diplomatic crisis by April 2008. By 1 August 2008, South Ossetian separatists began shelling Georgian villages, with a sporadic response from Georgian peacekeepers in the area. Artillery attacks by pro-Russian separatists broke a 1992 ceasefire agreement. To put an end to these attacks and restore order, the Georgian Army was sent to the South Ossetian conflict zone on 7 August. Georgians took control of most of Tskhinvali, a separatist stronghold, in hours.
Russian troops had illicitly crossed the Russo-Georgian state border and advanced into the South Ossetian conflict zone by 7 August before the Georgian military response. Russia accused Georgia of aggression against South Ossetia, and launched a large-scale land, air and sea invasion of Georgia on 8 August with the pretext of peace enforcement operation. Russian and South Ossetian forces battled Georgian forces in and around South Ossetia for several days, until Georgian forces retreated. Russian and Abkhaz forces opened a second front by attacking the Kodori Gorge held by Georgia. Russian naval forces blockaded part of the Georgian coast. The Russian air force attacked targets beyond the conflict zone, in undisputed parts of Georgia. This was the first war in history in which cyber warfare coincided with military action. An active information war was also waged during and after the conflict. The French presidency of the European Union, in the person of Nicolas Sarkozy, negotiated a ceasefire agreement on 12 August.
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