Wait I thought we have free speech and the Chinese are repressed and frightened of their government

May 28, 2008 10:37

"Although there is no official casualty count, only 13 of the school’s 900 students came out alive, parents said. “The people responsible for this should be brought here and have a bullet put in their head,” said Luo Guanmin, a farmer who was cradling a photo of his 16-year-old daughter, Luo Dan.

Sharp confrontations between protesters and officials began over the weekend in several towns in northern Sichuan. Hundreds of parents whose children died at the Fuxin No. 2 Primary School in the city of Mianzhu staged an impromptu rally on Saturday. They surrounded an official who tried to assure them that their complaints were being taken seriously, screaming and yelling in her face until she fainted."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/world/asia/28quake.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin
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