“Ultimately, the human cost of the retaking was staggeringly high: 128 men were shot – some of them multiple times.75 Less than half an hour after the retaking had commenced, nine hostages were dead and at least one additional hostage was close to death. Twenty-nine prisoners had been fatally shot.76.”

“Ultimately, the human cost of the retaking was staggeringly high: 128 men were shot – some of them multiple times.75 Less than half an hour after the retaking had commenced, nine hostages were dead and at least one additional hostage was close to death. Twenty-nine prisoners had been fatally shot.76.”

— Heather Ann Thompson