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Breaking News - Nearly 500 parents of students at Juyuan High School held the first memorial service for quake victims

From 7:00 am to 1:00 pm on 27th May, nearly 500 parents of students held a solemn memorial service on the wreckage of Juyuan High School in Dujiangyan City of Sichuan Province for the victims buried in the collapsed school buildings; at the service, parents expressed their pursuit of investigation of the jerry-buildings that collapsed in the tremor and their aspirations of the Government to build on the site of Juyuan High School wreckage an earthquake monument. In addition to parents at the scene, there were also local police and “China’s health supervision” officials that supervised at the scene.

According to participants at the memorial service, “Around 7:00 am on 27th May, about four or five hundred parents spontaneously assembled at the ruins of Juyuan High School to attend the memorial service for mouring, they made the banner: Compensate the bloody debt, severely punish the perpetrators, and redress for the victims.”

The official said: “parents grieve deeply, and they say we are very clear that the state’s education fundings are appropriated from the Ministry of Education down to individual local Departments of Education and the local government, and then to the school before the developer commences construction. This capital flow caused thin walls and less cement in building Juyuan High School that failed the stipulated standard and strength.”

People that attended the memorial service also said, “While parents mourn their victimized children, they also strongly urge the Government to build an earthquake monument on the wreckage site of Juyuan High School. The memorial service ended at 1:00 pm.

Insiders have revealed that casualties occurred at Juyuan High School had caused widespread concerns. Under strong pressure at home and abroad, Chinese Communists are seeking to bribe parents by coaxing and interfering with them from disclosing the truth to overseas media.

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