Meanwhile, frightened Ingush youth have left universities here. Ingush parents are afraid to let their children go to school with Ossetian children.
In the ramshackle border town of Maiski, east of Beslan, some 240 Ingush families live in houses made of tarpaper, plastic tarpaulins, particle board and blankets. Wires hang haphazardly above dirt paths where filthy children run amid cows and chickens. Water comes from a leaky corrugated metal tank.
Resident Mubari Azdoyev, 45, says he sympathizes with those who died at Beslan, but he angrily recalls how Ossetians forced him and his family to flee their home near Vladikavkaz in 1992.
"All the world watched Beslan suffer. They gave money. They sent help. And where was the world 12 years ago, when they shot our sons in front of our eyes?" Azdoyev said. "In 1992, it was worse than in Beslan."
At School No. 1, the gymnasium walls are lined inside and out with rows of flower wreaths, and scrawled with graffiti including: "Answer for the children."
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