School Issue Unresolved 1 Year After China Quake
From AP:
Two things still haunt Wang Bin a year after an earthquake decimated his village: the death of his teenage son and a purchase he made more than a decade earlier.
He bought the cartful of bricks and two tons of cement in 1995 from a contractor who said they were extra material from a school construction project. The price was low, and Wang’s neighbors had already taken advantage of the deal.
It was only after the magnitude-7.9 earthquake devastated Sichuan province last May 12 _ razing towns, collapsing classrooms and taking almost 70,000 lives _ that it hit the hollow-eyed, 45-year-old laborer.
For more on the unaccounted for deaths of children in the quake, read “In China, Quake Survivors Must Swallow Grief and Anger” from the Washington Post, and posts about Ai Weiwei’s project to document all the deaths, via CDT.
Origin: Audra Ang, AP
