Beslan-type monsters found nearer home

WE condemn the hounds of hell that tore apart Beslan’s innocent children and comfort ourselves that it couldn’t happen here. How naive we are.

Wed, 29 Sep, 2004 - 01:00

The monsters who inflicted such unspeakable cruelty on those children and their parents were no different from those who butchered the people of Omagh, Enniskillen and many other places in this country.

In our new age simplicity we justify and ensure future atrocities by equating the lives of the killers with those of their victims and fail to recognise the sheer evil that manifests itself in such people.

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