The School That Was Painted Red

The Beslan school siege was a siege made by Chechen radicals during the Chechen wars, where about 30 sieged a school in Russia and took 2,100 as hostages. At the end of it, more than 300 children died in the event.

While a grim topic to think about, what if more had been killed? What if everyone they could find was rounded up, and killed before Russian forces entered the school? Say the conservative maximum of 1,900 people is killed during the siege. What would be the effects of such a disaster?
 
The Russians would be out for blood, 1900 hostages massacred is NOT something to scoff at. I believe that the Russian would ramp up their counter-insurgence and infiltration campaigns to bring whoever responsible for that into the light - whatever the means, whatever the costs.

The Chechen would be... torn. On the one hand, some Chechen rebels may acknowledge the necessity to capture hostages to gain some political gained, but they would be pissed because some dickheads tarnished their names and goals. May be the Russian FSB and these men could have a silent truce while digging out the "responsible ones".
 
The Russians would be out for blood, 1900 hostages massacred is NOT something to scoff at. I believe that the Russian would ramp up their counter-insurgence and infiltration campaigns to bring whoever responsible for that into the light - whatever the means, whatever the costs.

The Chechen would be... torn. On the one hand, some Chechen rebels may acknowledge the necessity to capture hostages to gain some political gained, but they would be pissed because some dickheads tarnished their names and goals. May be the Russian FSB and these men could have a silent truce while digging out the "responsible ones".

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. 1900 death toll is like a 9/11 like situation. 1900 dead in a school shooting is probably not going to stay in Russian news but is probably going to get a lot of popularity in America, like Columbine, because 1900 is literally 1000 times worse than columbine casualties.

I also believe in the Chechens being split on what to do. Some might consider terror as the best way to just get the Russians off their back, and get the Russian people to want the terror attacks to stop. I mean there was already a ton of other Chechen terror attacks in movie theaters, and stadiums, some Chechens might think this is the best way to keep any type of country, or autonomy alive.

Although it may just lead to more Russian people wanting death to Chechens.
 
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