MOSCOW, August 29 (RIA Novosti) - More than $1.2 million has been raised by an international charity set up to help children who survived the September 2004 school siege in the North Caucasus town of Beslan.
Leonid Roshal, a Moscow pediatrician who has mediated in several major terrorist crises, said Monday that the tragedy had been the "pinnacle of terrorism."
According to official reports 330 people, including 186 children, died during the siege and when troops stormed the building.
Roshal praised an international fund to compensate victims of terrorism, which had raised more than $1.2 million for the children in Beslan who had been orphaned or crippled in the terrorist attack.
"The entire sum down to the last dollar has been distributed among families," Roshal said. "I am grateful for (the fund's( practical and kind activity."
Georgy Vasiliyev, a member of the fund's board of trustees, said $1,136,000 had already been distributed.
"Not a single ruble has been spent on covering the fund's administrative expenses," Vasilyev said. "All the money has been distributed among children."
A list of 279 families, with a total of 345 children, was made after data was collated and analyzed, Vasilyev said.
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