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Newsnight - 01/09/2009

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Beslan marks the fifth anniversary of the school siege tragedy in which more than 1000 hostages were taken. Three hundred and thirty four people, including 186 children, died. Chechen militants took control of the school in North Ossetia for three days before Russian forces stormed the building. Ewa Ewart, who directed the documentary Children of Beslan in the months immediately after the attack, has returned to Beslan for Newsnight to make a powerful film which reveals how the children have struggled to make sense of the attacks and how they are still traumatised by the events of five years ago.