Ms. Ewart , who has reported on North Korea 's secret prison camps , a Basque terrorist group and cocaine wars in Colombia , described Beslan as '' a perfectly average , unremarkable Russian town , where people lived happily in their anonymity , '' before the heavily armed guerillas seized the school last Sept. 1 , demanding that Russia withdraw its troops from Chechnya .
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