Vicious circle (Beslan School Massacre)

Just watched a documentary film on Beslan school Massacre. I wanted to watch a documentary on Septembre Massacre(1792)but all I could find on youtube was a documentary of Beslan School Massacre. So I thought what the hell and clicked on its thumbnail.

So the plot of the film is following
:On September 1, 2004, a group of armed Muslim terrorists arrive at SNO demanding an end to the Second Chechen War. They take more than 1100 people hostage.


Of course people who were taken hostage lost their family members, close friends, acquaintances, etc. (miracles don't happen in these things really. it only happens when you ask Jesus to turn your water into wine. OK OK I kid!!)

People who had to go through such trauma are furious with what happened and children reiterate that they want to behead terrorists.

It's a vicious circle that nobody is interested in putting an end to.

Terrorists were probably some average people from Chechnya. Possibly hateful and angry themselves because the Russian government killed their best friends and family members because they demanded independence in their district. The hatred grew stronger as the number of victims grew. And naturally the hatred drove these people to form a group, a crowd. Of course as more people took part in the crowd, giving into the power of number they started to abandon themselves to their lowest instincts. They buried themselves in their image-like ideas, illusions that they will be able to make some significant difference for their "people" for their "Chechnya"

So they go ahead, take some hard drugs, cover themselves with grenades, arrive at some kid's school and fuck it all up. Now these children, the very victims of this terrorist attack will grow up full of hatred towards whom? Terrorists! Muslims(naturally)! Their underdog? The terrorists(from BSM)' children. Well-done!

It's a vicious circle. And nobody seems to give a flying fuck.


"Reason and arguments are incapable of combatting certain
words and formulas. They are uttered with solemnity in the
presence of crowds, and as soon as they have been pronounced
an expression of respect is visible on every countenance, and all
heads are bowed. By many they are considered as natural forces,
as supernatural powers. They evoke grandiose and vague images
in men's minds, but this very vagueness that wraps them in
obscurity augments their mysterious power. They are the mysterious
divinities hidden behind the tabernacle, which the
devout only approach in fear and trembling." - Le Bon


(Update)Another vicious circle

The turmoil did not end with the Army’s invasion. “Most of the people who were in the refugee camps told us that the Army was equally bad. There was so much killing,” Yusufzai said. The government had placed limits on reporters who tried to enter the Swat Valley during the attack, but afterward Yusufzai and his colleagues were able to interview officers. “They told us they hated what they were doing—‘We were trained to fight Indians.’ ” But that changed when they sustained heavy losses, especially of junior officers. “They were killing everybody after their colleagues were killed—just like the Americans with their Predator missiles,” Yusufzai said. “What the Army did not understand, and what the Americans don’t understand, is that by demolishing the house of a suspected Taliban or their supporters you are making an enemy of the whole family.” What looked like a tactical victory could turn out to be a strategic failure.

From The New Yorker, written by Seymour M. Hersh