The Dim Sum Diaries: Killers Set Terms, a Mother Chooses

Friday, September 03, 2004

Killers Set Terms, a Mother Chooses

Written by Mir :: :: ::

I just read this pretty compelling story regarding the school hostage situation in Russia...

Shortly after, she learned that she would have to choose between taking her son or her daughter.

Alana was clinging to me and holding my hand firmly. But they separated us, and said: 'You go with the boy. Your sister can stay here with her.' I cried. I begged them. Alana cried. The women around us wept. One of the Chechens said: 'If you don't go now, you don't go at all. You stay here with your children … and we will shoot all of you.' "

She couldn't save both of them. She could only die with both of them — or save one of them and herself.

"I didn't have time to think what I was doing," she said. "I pressed Alan even stronger to myself, and I went out, and I heard all the time how my daughter was crying and calling for me behind my back. I thought my heart would break into pieces there and then."

I don't even want to think about what I would do in that situation.

Killers Set Terms, a Mother Chooses

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