Around 70 Russian children and adults on recuperative stay in Karlovy
Vary following the tragedy in Russia's Beslan visited the west Bohemian
town of Pilsen on Sunday. Visiting sites included Pilsen's zoo. Most of
the children and parents invited for the four-week stay in the Czech
Republic lost friends or loved ones in the hostage-taking and terrorist
stand-off in Beslan, in September, in which terrorists killed 330
people. Of those, 172 were children.
Czech specialists say the children on stay in Karlovy Vary have adapted
well, but continue to show deeply-ingrained trauma, evident in their
drawings of bombs, graves, and war.
One of the parents told the press on Sunday that returning home would
be difficult, that parents would once again fear for their children
there.