Re: Earthquake in China - 20000 casualties?

On Fri, 16 May 2008 21:21:27 +0800, Albert K. Fung wrote
(in article <g0k21u$el6$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):

> vivozhang:
> 
>> no, our government did not refuse any assistance from the international
>> community. think about it, the roads to the epicenter are cut off by
>> earthquake, even the plane/helicopter can't land on those sites, how
can the
>> international relief team enter those place!
> 
> Jim Walsh:
> 
>> 1. Yes. The CCP refused foreign assistance.
>> 2. Helicopters can deliver aid and aid workers without landing.
>> 3. Today we read that the CCP is accepting foreign disaster experts.
The 
>> delay undoubtedly caused deaths to occur that would have been saved.
> 
> At this stage ....
> 
> The operating assumption is that the unaccounted for are now
> dead. And the focus ****fted from search-and-rescue to debris
> removal, recovering and burying bodies.....

> Unfortunately, time is no longer of essence ....
> 
> BTW: The Japanese team leader bitterly complained that their
>      search-and-rescue dogs, are helpless in this of operat-
>      ion. They're most useful within the first 72 hours. And
>      do not have the trainings to recover corpses.  They are
>      now preparing to return home.

The truth is bitter. To save face, the CCP allowed Chinese people to die, 
buried alive.

-- 
Love, Jim
(I often delete parts of the previous post and I often remove excessive 
crossposts.)


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