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【标题】Parents of China quake victims held for protesting over shoddy buildings
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Parents of China quake victims held for protesting over shoddy buildings By Clifford Coonan in Beijing
Thursday, 5 June 2008
The road to Juyuan Middle School, where hundreds of studentsperished in China's earthquake on 12 May, is blocked by police asofficers clamp down on potentially destabilising news about thedisaster.
Soldiersof the People's Liberation Army are clearing the site but there is arisk of infection, so no journalists, volunteers or villagers areallowed in, said a policeman guarding access to the school yesterday.However, there is another reason why Juyuan School, and scores ofothers around the quake zone in Sichuan province, has been sealed off.
Thisweek, anguished parents in Dujiangyan, a small city 30 miles (50km)from the provincial capital Chengdu, were taken away by riot policeafter protesting against officials they claim are responsible forshoddy building work that made the school collapse like a house ofcards. Despite remarkable openness and tolerance of foreign journalistssince the quake, public displays of dissent, even by grieving parents,are not tolerated in China.
The tremor has so far claimed nearly70,000 lives, with thousands more missing and five million peoplehomeless. More than 9,000 children died in the quake, many of them intheir classrooms as the tremor struck.
Juyuan Middle School wasa scene of horror as the bodies of teenagers were brought out of therubble with appalling regularity, each identification marked with avolley of firecrackers.
It is not clear how many pupils died. Theofficial death toll is 278 but parents insist the true figure is morethan 400. Soldiers were reportedly still digging children out of theruins a day or two ago.
Parents blame poor building standards and flimsy materials for the deaths, because apartment blocks nearby are still standing.
Thegovernment has conceded many schools were badly built and promised thatall those in the quake zone would be inspected for signs of what theSouthern Weekend newspaper referred to as "tofu construction". Itquoted a member of the Ministry of Construction disaster relief team,Chen Baosheng, as saying: "The deaths of so many children ought to makeour urban planning officials, architects and structural engineers allreflect deeply.
"Juyuan Middle School's location, architectural structure, construction process and construction materials all had problems."
InDujiangyan, people are much more reluctant than before to discuss theschool's plight. They have reportedly been warned not to talk toforeign journalists.
"This was my school, this was my mother'sschool," said a man selling mobile phones near the Juyuan campus. "Weare not experts on the building. How should we know what happened. Manyfactors caused the school to collapse."
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