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Earthquake Diary
(4)
The
Support
16 February 2009
This
is the most amazing eyewitness account of a huge event.
Through his camera lens, the author known as 新洋, recorded and
reported, and is still recording and reporting to this
very day, the horrific catastrophe and incredible human response. The
following are the images edited from some of his photos
and English translation of the related notes:
1, Eyewitness Report through the Lens
2, The Rescue Efforts
3, The Tentative Recovery
新洋 18 May
2008
This free tea stall is set up by a
Chinese Oil company.
During the crisis, the majority of
the Chinese people are truly united as brothers
and sisters in one family. When your car arrives
at a town or a village, the locals would bring
you a bowl of tea for free; in the streets, when
someone is seen to be in T shirt and shorts,
others would approach to ask if a warmer outfit
is needed; when a stranger walks into an eatery,
he/she would be immediately invited to share food
with those who have already ordered dishes.
多难兴邦 - By
courageously taking up challenges a nation can
rise up to occasions.
This is midnight in a torrential
downpour of rain with strong and frequent
aftershocks, yet on the highways, traffic is
heavy as trucks and cars with full loads of
donations keep streaming into the quake hit
zones.
The mountain roads in the
formidable Mt Jiajin (夹金山) are partially damaged
by constant landslide, but the dangerous
condition does not intimidate rescue forces away
from approaching the victims in the communities
deep within the mountain. The brave drivers of
two tourist coaches are evacuating the local
residents.
When I was half way up
the mountain, I received phone calls from
Chengdu, warning me that according to the news on
TV, there would be strong aftershocks in the area
that night, so I returned to the hill foot where
I met a group of people chatting away around a
campfire. They warmly invited me to join them.
After a while, we
realised we were joined by another new comer - a
young man quietly sitting at a corner. When
inquired, he tells us he is a resident at
Wenchuan County Town (纹川县城). Hours after the
massive quake, he and other two dozens of young
people with families in the town braved their way
home, but several of them were killed in the
mountain road by landslide. "Tonight I'm
gonna take a break here, wait until
tomorrow."
新洋 24 May
2008
This is a Tibetan settlement where
Han and Tibetan police work side by side.
In Menggu (猛固), passionate ethnic
Tibetan people rally by the roadside with
banners, national flags, baskets of food and
bowls of water, welcoming the arrival of the
military forces and other volunteers.
The earthquake victims do not want
to sit and wait for others to bring help to them.
They dug out clothes and quilts from the rubbles,
washed them and hang them on a thread to dry in
the sun for reuse.
This extended family got an open
tent from an army unit. Each day they sit by a
small radio transmitter to hear the news.
They told me that since the 12 May
they've received rice handout twice, totalling 3
kilos per person; and in recent days, they have
been delivered instant noodles on daily basis.
"What we need most at the
moment are salt, oil and tents," they say,
and look forward to the day when the government
can help them to build a new home.
新洋 29 May
2008
The rough street living does not
stop people from having fun.
This is the site office of the
food and accounting bureaus of Jiangyou city, and
the staff work in their cars.
When I've arrived on the other
side of Mt Jiajin, I've only been able to leave
one bottle of medicine to a man looking after the
railway line. The locals declined to receive the
donated items in my car, urging me to bring them
to the people hit harder by the quake.
5, The Chinese Army
6, The Reflection
7, The Hope
8, The United Efforts
(Original post in
Chinese can be viewed at
forum.xinhuanet.com/detail.jsp?id=54276745&pg=1)
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