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Svetlana Gubareva's description
Written by NovayaGazeta.Ru   
Воскресенье, 21 Март 2004
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            The Chechens at one point found some military identification cards, and tried to find their owners in the hall. They found a general up on the balcony, but I could not see what happened there. I only heard how Barayev said gladly: «I've always dreamed of catching a general!»

            On October 25th, Barayev walked down the aisle next to us, and was talking on the cell phone. Judging by the tone, he was talking with some boss. I heard him speak apologetically: «Yes, we made a bit of a mess here in the hall, but we’ll pick it all up before we leave.» After this, black plastic bags turned up, and the hostages had to pick up the trash.

            At that time practically everyone in our section could talk on the cell phone. A Chechen woman of about 45 stood next to us, and gave anyone who wanted a cell phone, in spite of the prohibition. She told me how her husband had been killed, and her brothers, and how they had taken her 12-year-old son from school, never to be seen again. The woman told how she could not live this way anymore, and so she left her 5-year-old daughter with her sister, and came to the theater. There were two sisters, one 16 and the other 18. Their relatives had no idea where they had gone, they just decided on the spur of the moment. The radio broadcasts stated that the theater hall was full of the widows of dead Chechen fighters. This was not so: there were a lot of young girls, 16–18 years old, who had never been married. They were amused at the fact that they were being called widows.

            As far as I know the Chechens killed no hostages. Olga Romanova, the girl they shot, was not a hostage.

            On the evening of October 25th a man came in from the street. Just like Olga Romanova, they dragged him into the hall and brought him to Barayev, who asked: «What are you trying to do? Why did you come?» The man answered: «I came because there is no information. I'm worried. My son Roma is here.» 'Yassir' said that there was a 10-year-old on the balcony named Roma. The man answered that that wasn't his son, that his was older. Then they were shouting in the hall, looking for Roma. They said his surname, but I do not remember it. Since no one answered, the man was taken out of the hall. I guess that they shot him, because there were shots heard right away.

            At that time they moved the bomb right under the balcony. There was another bomb on the balcony, and they put them on the same fuse. Two Chechen women were sitting by the explosives. It was quiet in the hall.
 
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