The Children of China's Quake

A mother wails while holding a framed photograph of her child, one of 127 children killed in the collapse of Fuxing Number Two Elementary School in Mianzhu.
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Grief
A mother wails while holding a framed photograph of her child, one of 127 children killed in the collapse of Fuxing Number Two Elementary School in Mianzhu. Many people living in the areas hit hardest by the disaster have asserted that officials have long known that the school buildings were unsafe.

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