Houston Community News >> China Gags Voice Seeking School Collapse
7/11/2008-- Three weeks after the
earthquake in Sichuan Province, five bereaved fathers whose children
died in collapsed schools sought help from a local human rights activist
named Huang Qi.
The fathers visited Huang at the Tianwang Human Rights Center, an informal advocacy organisation in the provincial capital of Chengdu, where he worked and lived. They told him how the four-story Dongqi Middle School had crumbled in an instant, burying their children alive.
Huang soon posted an article on his centre’s website, 64tianwang.com, describing their demands. They wanted compensation, an investigation into the schools’ construction and for those responsible for the building’s collapse to be held accountable— if there indeed was negligence.
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The fathers visited Huang at the Tianwang Human Rights Center, an informal advocacy organisation in the provincial capital of Chengdu, where he worked and lived. They told him how the four-story Dongqi Middle School had crumbled in an instant, burying their children alive.
Huang soon posted an article on his centre’s website, 64tianwang.com, describing their demands. They wanted compensation, an investigation into the schools’ construction and for those responsible for the building’s collapse to be held accountable— if there indeed was negligence.
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