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     COMMENTS: Maintain Social Order

NBC's China coverage was not entirely fluff for the Olympics. Ian Williams returned to Sichuan Province to find out whether bereaved parents were making progress in their investigation into whether shoddy construction of schoolhouses cause the deaths of the 10,000 children killed in May's earthquake. "There have been no answers from a promised government inquiry," Williams announced flatly. He showed school sites being sealed, with debris cleared away, across the earthquake zone. A school caretaker who published pictures of collapsed structures online has been arrested and is incarcerated in a labor camp. Childless parents are paid $9,000 in compensation on condition that they cease their protests: "Under the leadership of the Party and the government we will obey the law and maintain social order," is how they sign their rights away.

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