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Article: Anger rising in volatile Caucasus; School saga is inflaming old divides between ethnic groups.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- September 8, 2004
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Byline: Scott Peterson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
BESLAN, RUSSIA -- Grief is turning to anger and deepening tension here in the Caucasus as Russia Tuesday took a second day of national mourning - and the residents of Beslan buried another 100 loved ones.
For people at the muddy gravesides and throughout this small town, the school-hostage tragedy is viewed through the lens of a brutal historic rivalry, which pits the Christian Orthodox Ossetians here, against Muslims of Ingushetia and Chechnya to the east.
By striking the pro-Russian Ossetians, the Chechens and Ingush militants are seen attempting to launch an ethnic conflict ...