How about that Boston Globe, too?
Ignoring the fires and floods here in America, while ignoring China and Burma again.
Oh well, what's another day of agenda-pushing, right?
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BEIJING — Hundreds of parents protesting shoddy school construction that they said led to the deaths of their children in the May earthquake were harassed by riot police officers on Tuesday and criticized by local government officials, the parents said Wednesday.
Local officials were also trying to buy the silence of the parents by offering them about $8,800 if they signed a contract agreeing not to raise the school construction issue again, several parents said.
The confrontation between the parents and the police officers erupted on Tuesday morning as 200 parents protested outside government offices in Mianzhu, a city in the earthquake-ravaged Sichuan Province, said Liu Guangyuan, a protester who lost a son when a school collapsed.
It was the latest in a series of protests held by grieving parents, many of whom lost their only child in the earthquake. With an eye to the approach of the Olympic Games in Beijing next month, however, the Chinese authorities have ordered the police to crack down on the rallies. Chinese news organizations have also been told by the central government not to report on the schools, and all journalists have been barred from approaching the collapse sites.
It's a good thing the AmeriKan MSM never censors things, huh, readers (says blog author with as much sarcasm as he can muster)!!
another Mianzhu school that collapsed, said parents at that school had also been offered $8,800 plus a pension upon retirement in their 60s if they signed a contract acknowledging that their children died in the schools because of the earthquake and agreeing not to disturb reconstruction effort.
Zhang Longfu, whose daughter died in the collapse of Fuxin No. 2 Primary School:
“Parents are generally concerned about the contract and are not willing to sign it because they’re afraid that by signing it, they’ll be admitting that their children’s deaths are not related to the shoddy school building.”
Sounds like the papers AmeriKa's government made 9/11 victims sign to get their compensation, doesn't it?
Hundreds of parents also held a rally on Tuesday in Shifang to protest government attempts to give them compensation in return for silence, according to a report from Radio Free Asia, a nonprofit news agency that receives financing from the United States government.
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Geez, how much do you think we are paying for that radio station, Americans?
Nothing better to do with that $$$, right?
Is their even ONE CENT this government spends on us, readers?!
Why is ALL the $$$ going OUT OF COUNTRY?
Which corporate connection got rich of this?
