Aftershocks cause panic in China - 13 May 08

Al Jazeera's Melissa Chan reports at the heart of the disaster zone in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, China.
Monday's earthquake in southwestern China has taken a particularly deadly toll on schoolchildren, with several schools across the disaster reduced to rubble by the force of the quake.

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[Scheherezade999]

You're so right...Seeing Chinese people's loss and suffering is just so disheartening...but in the mean time, some people are just so heartless by talking crap about politics, religous, and karma...Anyhow, i'd just wish these suffering people all good blessings...

[flyingbird0214]

Why do people always get the some idiotic that everything is a punishment from some supernatural force? Did they go to school? It is simple geology. The continents are on top of plates, tectonic plates that float on the magna, melted rocks, that surrounds the nucleus of the planet. The natural movement of these plates causes earthquakes. The heating of the oceans and wind currents cause hurricanes and cyclones. Civil wars as all wars are cause by social and economic interests trying to...

[RYODRIVE]

The Chinese who made a fool of Japan should die.

Unnecessary population decreases.

[quinnsans]

tornadoes, earthquakes, and hurricanes (you mean tropical storms) happen all the time, so your point is?

If you used rational thinking, something that everyone except for the ding battiest of the dingbat fundamentalists and maybe them as well, you would've deduced that this is how the world functions.

[quinnsans]

d'accord, l'état de la république populaire de Chine n'est pas le plus démocratique ni le plus juste que le monde mais le peuple de la RPC ne doit pas avoir cette catastrophe, pas personne ne doit pas.

Je suis un américain et mes parents viennent de la RPC, je suis athée mais je pense les idées bouddhiste sont très génial, donc tu ne peux pas appeler moi un communiste-chinois. Mais ça n'a pas rien avec quoi nous bavardons, nous bavardons sur ton stupidité.

[quinnsans]

This has nothing to do with the Dalai Lama, it simply has to do with the fact that these buildings were inadequate for this location, a location that is seismically active and resting in between two active shifting tectonic plates.

A prominent religious leader, and yes the Dalai Lama is a prominent religious leader much to the chagrin of the CCP, a prominent religious leader like that would never wish that much ill suffering upon that many innocent people. In fact no one should.

[RYODRIVE]

It is a splendid scene.

[Yen6667]

Dalai Lama is the greatest liar!He says he want to free Tibet,but he just want to control Tibet.And don't say the bad things about China and the peoples,you thing you are GOD!GOD BLESS CHINA!

[lovemyrims13]

about.N 1 way or another pple who r dnt want 2 follow God's word try 2 impress their wills on someone else.Every war.Some call the cause peace keeping,rivalry,jihad,slavery,­freedom.Its all about God.Bcuz if all followd God's perfect will & HIS SON JESUS we would have heaven of Earth. & Im not speaking 2 say my God is better than whoever My GOd lives,reigns,saves,heals,loves­,endures hardships,protects,restores,is kind He sen our example Jesus our savior,healer, IF U ONLY KNEW WHY WE GO CRAZY4 HIM