I was watching a documentary called "The Beslan Siege" on Discovery Channel the other day. This documentary returns a year after the horrific conclusion to the attack on Beslan's school No. 1 to ask why the seige ended so disasterously. The film hears first hand from children and adult survivors and from the officials involved. Among the victims interviewed in the documentary was a woman (wish I had remembered her name); Dr. Larissa Mamitova, who along with her young boy were among the victims. Near the end of the film this woman tells to the interviewer that her boy has changed ever since that fateful day of September 1st 2004, and that all he talks about is revenge and how much he hates the Serbs and the West.
The boy (at the time of the interview) was only 8 years old. The profound effect this tragedy has had on his mind made me wonder how many children like him, must have similarly been affected. Doesn't it make you wonder that with terrorist attacks that involve child victims becoming more and more frequent all that we'll end up with; is a generation that's grown out of hatred towards each other?