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Grief Turns to Fury For Quake Survivors

Posted May 13, 08 10:15 CDT in World 

(Newser) – As rescue efforts continue in western China, the mood among survivors of the earthquake has transformed from grief to fury: at the military, at builders, and above all at the government. In Dujiangyan, where several hundreds pupils died when a school collapsed, the Guardian reports that residents tried to push through military police and begged Western media to circulate their stories.

A massive rescue effort is now underway across Sichuan province, but survivors had begun to blame corrupt officials and rapacious contractors for the devastation. "They have money for prostitutes and second wives but they don't have money for our children," said one woman who lost her daughter. "This is not a natural disaster—this is done by humans."

Source Guardian (UK)

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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, local residents work to clear away debris from a collapsed building in Mianzhu City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Tuesday, May 13, 2008.   (AP Photo/Xinhua, Ye Jianping)
Residents grieve as bodies are taken out from the collapsed remains of a school following Monday's earthquake in Juyuan, southwestern China's Sichuan province, Tuesday, May 13, 2008.   (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
A Chinese man eats a meal outside a makeshift shelter in front of houses destroyed in Monday's quake in Mianyang, Sichuan province, China, Tuesday, May 13, 2008.   (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
A Chinese woman holding a child cries near the site of a school collapsed following Monday's 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Juyuan, southwestern China's Sichuan province, Tuesday, May 13, 2008.   (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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