Untapped fury

China's future may not be as secure as it thinks.

clipped from www.nytimes.com Parents’ Grief Turns to Rage at Chinese Officials DUJIANGYAN, China — Bereaved parents whose children were crushed to death in their classrooms during the earthquake in Sichuan Province have turned mourning ceremonies into protests in recent days, forcing officials to address growing political repercussions over shoddy construction of public schools. Later, as the crowd surged into the hundreds, some parents clashed with the police, leaving several bleeding and trembling with emotion. The protests threaten to undermine the government’s attempts to promote its response to the quake as effective and to highlight heroic rescue efforts by the People’s Liberation Army, which has dispatched 150,000 soldiers to the region. Censors have blocked detailed reporting of the schools controversy by the state-run media, but a photo of Mr. Jiang kneeling before protesters has become a sensation on some Web forums, bringing national attention to the incident.