# Beslan nothing new: check out Sudan

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 28, 2004, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beslan-nothing-new-check-out-sudan/266568 "2004-09-28T22:28:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![WeRSauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f19dbf/32.png) [@WeRSauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WeRSauron)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beslan-nothing-new-check-out-sudan/266568/1 "2004-09-28T22:28:12Z")

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Well, seems like Beslan - militants targetting schools and schoolchildren and teachers - is not such a rare thing. [Check out this article by the LA Times on Yahoo! News.](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&ncid=2026&e=3&u=/latimests/20040928/ts_latimes/anattackonthewilltolearn)

There’s something new every day to bolster my cynicism and pessimism regarding the human race.

WRS - “And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short.”