SHIHO FUKADA

CHINA EARTHQUAKE: AFTER A SCHOOL COLLAPSED

Jiang Guohua, the Communist Party secretary of Mianzhu city, kneels on the ground pleading with protesting parents, whose children were killed in a school collapse during the earthquake, not to complain to higher authorities, Sichuan, China, May 2008. Despite Jiang's pleas, the parents of the 127 children who died in the collapse kept marching and eventually met with higher officials, who told them the government would investigate.
Jiang Guohua, the Communist Party secretary of Mianzhu city, kneels on the ground pleading with protesting parents, whose children were killed in a school collapse during the earthquake, not to complain to higher authorities, Sichuan, China, May 2008. Despite Jiang's pleas, the parents of the 127 children who died in the collapse kept marching and eventually met with higher officials, who told them the government would investigate.