Breaking News – Victims from Wenchuan County, urgently need to be resettled elsewhere
The victims from Wenchuan County (the Sichuan hardest hit disaster area) recently asked the Government for emergency help to resettle them elsewhere, within the request they had referred that the county has no conditions for living, the vast majority of housing are uninhabitable and the mud-rock flows, threaten hill landslides. All facilities were also devastatingly damaged, and restoration is difficult, some residents also want to leave this sad place where they lost their friends and relatives.
A victim told a Sound of Hope reporter [recording] “Hill landslides are everywhere, I think it’s not suitable for living, their major production here is fruit base, and theres no more now. I have no doubts that there is racial discrimination, there is Aba over Wenchuan and all are ethnic minorities. There are also many Tibetans, especially with the unrest in Tibet, they have bad opinions of Tibetans and so they do not take care of them, it is very tragic.”
Ms Chan said there are a few people left from Wenchuan seeking refuge with relatives and friends. She said that the surviving in the county are currently put together in three open areas, are living in tents, and their living conditions are very difficult.
According to the Census and Statistics from the Wenchuan County government, 16,440 acres of the farmland in the whole county has lost of 6904.8 acres, and a loss of 7891.2 acres of networks to rural roads and drinking water were damage severly, the restoration is considerable difficult. In addition there are 8594 households affected and 33,581 people in Wenchuan Counties rural areas. There are 46,678 residents and transient populations requiring urgent resettlement elsewhere.
The above news is brought to you by Lu Fang and Xiong Bin, hosted by Chris Thomas for Breaking News on the SOH Radio Network.
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