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their anguish is unbearable����parents come here to pray and remember to bring offering to their little ones up in heaven, nearly three hundred children died when this elementary school collapsed����, half of the students in grades 2 to 6,the zhanjiang primary school in the city of Dujiangyan is just one of about 7000 schools that were reduce to rubble by the earthquake. Of the 69000 people believed dead����more than 10000 were school children����Shanjiqiuluo was 12 in fifth grade����her mother says the picture was an old one and doesn’t do a justice. "She was a tall smart and beautiful girl",she says, and like most of her classmates and only child ,her parents had great hopes for her future, not any more, now they are `` It hasn’t escape anyone’s attention that although the school is in ruins, all the surrounding buildings are still standing. It’s exhibit except the earthquakes simply ruined the classrooms. But of course, that’s not what happened. The parents blame government’s corruption, poor construction methods, cheap building materials. The steel reinforcing bars are thinner than my finger, they are just wires really, concretes turn to dust, it’s this kind of shorty construction that made the parents so furious, there are several protests by parents and broke up by police. it’s a sensitive subject for the Chinese government which wants to keep a lead on aboil emotion to make sure it doesn’t spill over the politics. You like to see the journal’s visa? Yeah,yeah. I can show you the journal’s visa. As we report the school, first claim of the officials ask for our papers. Then the police and soldiers arrived to keep people away and see the place off. I have to say everybody is being very cooperated until today so we can do it at school .Although the governments were appraised for quick reacting for the disaster, for allowing the access for networks and journalists, it doesn’t want this story told. Some Chinese reporters say they are forbidden to write about it. But however how hard they tried to sanitize what happened in the school or other shools like this, they can't stop the sorbbing. or make the parents forget.






their anguish is unbearable����parents come here to pray and remember to bring offering to their little ones up in heaven, nearly three hundred children died when this elementary school collapsed����, half of the students in grades 2 to 6,the zhanjiang primary school in the city of Dujiangyan is just one of about 7000 schools that were reduce to rubble by the earthquake. Of the 69000 people believed dead����more than 10000 were school children����Shanjiqiuluo was 12 in fifth grade����her mother says the picture was an old one and doesn’t do a justice. "She was a tall smart and beautiful girl",she says, and like most of her classmates and only child ,her parents had great hopes for her future, not any more, now they are `` It hasn’t escape anyone’s attention that although the school is in ruins, all the surrounding buildings are still standing. It’s exhibit except the earthquakes simply ruined the classrooms. But of course, that’s not what happened. The parents blame government’s corruption, poor construction methods, cheap building materials. The steel reinforcing bars are thinner than my finger, they are just wires really, concretes turn to dust, it’s this kind of shorty construction that made the parents so furious, there are several protests by parents and broke up by police. it’s a sensitive subject for the Chinese government which wants to keep a lead on aboil emotion to make sure it doesn’t spill over the politics. You like to see the journal’s visa? Yeah,yeah. I can show you the journal’s visa. As we report the school, first claim of the officials ask for our papers. Then the police and soldiers arrived to keep people away and see the place off. I have to say everybody is being very cooperated until today so we can do it at school .Although the governments were appraised for quick reacting for the disaster, for allowing the access for networks and journalists, it doesn’t want this story told. Some Chinese reporters say they are forbidden to write about it. But however how hard they tried to sanitize what happened in the school or other shools like this, they can't stop the sorbbing. or make the parents forget.

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