Tang Yulan, 40, weeps amid the ruins of Beichuan Middle School, a month after losing her only daughter in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. About 4,700 schoolchildren died when more than 7,000 schools collapsed. Photo: Ricky Chung
Tang Yulan, 40, weeps amid the ruins of Beichuan Middle School, a month after losing her only daughter in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. About 4,700 schoolchildren died when more than 7,000 schools collapsed. Photo: Ricky Chung
A family collapses in grief after their child's body is retrieved from a collapsed school. Photo: Reuters
A family collapses in grief after their child's body is retrieved from a collapsed school. Photo: Reuters
Liao Chengping, 61, lost her granddaughter at Xiang Er Middle School. Photo: Robert Ng
Liao Chengping, 61, lost her granddaughter at Xiang Er Middle School. Photo: Robert Ng
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The shame of Sichuan's tofu schools

Parents who lost children in shoddy schools in the 2008 earthquake are still treated like criminals for trying to bring those responsible to book

Choi Chi-yuk
Choi Chi-yuk

Updated: 12:07pm, 6 May, 2013

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Tang Yulan, 40, weeps amid the ruins of Beichuan Middle School, a month after losing her only daughter in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. About 4,700 schoolchildren died when more than 7,000 schools collapsed. Photo: Ricky Chung
Tang Yulan, 40, weeps amid the ruins of Beichuan Middle School, a month after losing her only daughter in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. About 4,700 schoolchildren died when more than 7,000 schools collapsed. Photo: Ricky Chung
A family collapses in grief after their child's body is retrieved from a collapsed school. Photo: Reuters
A family collapses in grief after their child's body is retrieved from a collapsed school. Photo: Reuters
Liao Chengping, 61, lost her granddaughter at Xiang Er Middle School. Photo: Robert Ng
Liao Chengping, 61, lost her granddaughter at Xiang Er Middle School. Photo: Robert Ng
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