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Chinese premier begs comfort for earthquake orphans
Bangladesh News.Net
Wednesday 14th May, 2008
The death toll from China's deadliest earthquake in decades has climbed to nearly 15,000, with rescuers pulling people from the tangled wreckage of homes, schools and office buildings.
50,000 troops are now digging for victims at the epicentre of the earthquake in Wenchuan in Sichuan province, where houses have mostly been destroyed or damaged.
State television has shown whole villages wiped out across the poor, mountainous region suggesting searchers would find many more bodies than survivors among the toppled buildings.
A dam near the epicentre of the earthquake has been checked for structural damage and deemed to be safe.
There were reports that 2,000 soldiers had rushed to repair Zipingpu dam, which is upriver from the quake-hit city of Dujiangyan, due to dangerous cracks that had appeared.
Tens of thousands of troops, firefighters and civilians have been working to rescue more than 25,000 people buried across a wide swathe of south-west Sichuan province after Monday's 7.9 magnitude quake.
Many school children were buried. Only some have been rescued.
China’s premier, Wen Jiabao has made emotional appeals for people to comfort orphaned children.
He has stood among tearful local residents to tell them: 'Your pain is our pain. Saving people's lives is the most important task.'
The quake, the worst to hit China since 1976, when up to 300,000 died, has drowned out news of the Beijing Olympic Games and the recent unrest in Tibet.
Swift action by the government to mobilise a massive rescue force has made a shocking comparison with that of Myanmar where the generals have been floundering.
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Anonymous
05-15-08, 08:36 AM |
Equal rigjhts for all
Whole villages wiped out across the poor mountainous regions. Is this a poor place. It shows the Chinese government cares for the people whether they are poor or from minority groups. People they execute are the ones who harmed others,like the fellow who sold fake milk powder that killed numerous babies. They are feeding their citizens from the cradle to the grave,so they have to control their population. One foreign China lecturer is earning a high salary here but both his parents are still getting a monthly pension from the chinese government. He says his parents always say 'we are paid to eat,we don’t pay to eat'. And they are from a poor minority tribe. It shows with free education and with hard work even the poor can make it in China. No difference from democratic countries but better in the sense that they help all their citizens as a right,without them having to ask for it. In democratic countries,the poor have to apply for aid and it may not be approved.
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Tejas Gunas
05-14-08, 10:53 PM |
Chinese premier begs comfort for earthquake orphans
CeeJay, you should be proud, comrade!
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Independent
05-15-08, 03:28 AM |
Stop atrocity in Tibet
Innocent people paid for the SINS committed by Wew Jiabao in Tibet. It i still not too late. Similar senerio can be cited in America. Innocent Yankees are paying for the murderer in White House.
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Wishful thinker
05-15-08, 02:15 AM |
If only this was true
I am sure premier WJB is a nice man - but hypocritically two-faced. On the one hand he emphathises with earthquake victims but on the other hand he enforces mass executions of over 4000 Chinese every year; harrasses, persecutes and tortures (some die!) many Chinese Christians; and gives Chinese Minorities a hard time, such as in Xinjiang Province and Tibet. So much for “One Country, Two Systems”. And the concerned world is supposed to swallow this great and impossible contradiction? 1+1=NOT 3. Buyao!
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Wishful thinker
05-15-08, 02:17 AM |
If only this was true
I am sure premier WJB is a nice man - but hypocritically two-faced. On the one hand he emphathises with earthquake victims but on the other hand he enforces mass executions of over 4000 Chinese every year; harrasses, persecutes and tortures (some die!) many Chinese Christians; and gives Chinese Minorities a hard time, such as in Xinjiang Province and Tibet. So much for “One Country, Two Systems”. And the concerned world is supposed to swallow this great and impossible contradiction? 1+1=NOT 3. Buyao!
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motherfucker
05-16-08, 10:36 PM |
Plsese respect Mr.Wen
I am not sure if Wenjiabao is hypocrtiticall,I only know as long as disaster happens,he will appear in the first time,we are pround for such a great prime minister.Moreover,Chinese goverment never persecutes any chiristians,religious in China is free,if you do not believe,please come to China to confirm,and do not saying this bullshit without proof!!!
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