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Saturday 6 June 2015
Myanmar’s Aung China ship righted to resume search for missing
San Suu Kyi to visit
China next week Paramilitary policemen in white overalls wait to recover bodies surviving captain and first be allowed to view their
from the Eastern Star after it is righted and lifted by cranes in engineer under police loved ones’ bodies before
EIJING (AP) — Myanmar the Yangtze River in Jianli county in southern China’s Hubei custody. Passengers’ rela- they are cremated. In past
pro-democracy icon Aung province Friday June 5, 2015. The smashed up white-and-blue tives have raised questions disasters, authorities have
San Suu Kyi will visit Com- Eastern Star emerged from gray waters of the Yangtze River on about whether the ship instead cremated bodies
munist Party-ruled Chi- Friday as Chinese disaster teams raised the capsized ship with should have continued its and delivered ashes to the
na for five days next week. cranes to better search for hundreds still missing. cruise after the storm start- victims’ families, in keep-
Suu Kyi, who is an interna- ed and despite a weather ing with the tight manage-
tional symbol of democ- (Chinatopix Via AP) warning earlier in the eve- ment of the aftermath of
racy for her yearslong de- ning. disasters and fears of spiral-
fiance of an authoritarian C. BODEEN bodies have been found. In a sign of potential un- ing unrest.
military regime in Myan- Associated Press The focus shifted from find- rest among the hundreds “Why do you view the
mar, now has ambitions for JIANLI, China (AP) — The ing survivors to retrieving of relatives who have de- common people as your
her country’s presidency, banged-up, white-and- bodies trapped since the scended on the small Hu- enemies?” Xia cried out.
which would involve the blue Eastern Star emerged river cruise ship capsized bei province county of Ji- “There’s no human feel-
need for smooth relations from gray waters of the suddenly during a storm anli, one distraught family ing, can’t we change this
with Beijing. Yangtze River on Friday Monday night on the trip member burst into a gath- habit?”
Suu Kyi will visit from June 10 as Chinese disaster teams from Nanjing to Chongq- ering of journalists to com- Many of the more than 450
to 14 as chairwoman of her raised the capsized ship ing. plain about their treatment people on the cruise ship
National League for De- with cranes to better Authorities have attributed and demand an investiga- were reported to be retir-
mocracy party at the invi- search for nearly 340 peo- the accident to weather, tion into possible human ees taking in the Yangtze’s
tation of China’s Commu- ple still missing. So far, 103 but also have placed the error. scenic vistas.
nist Party for an inter-party “All the emphasis is on a With 103 confirmed dead
exchange between the natural disaster ... but we and 339 missing, the cap-
two countries, China’s For- think that this is unjust,” said sizing is likely to become
eign Ministry announced Xia Yunchen, a 70-year-old the country’s deadliest
Friday. university lecturer. “Apart boat disaster in seven de-
“China has maintained from natural disaster were cades. The 14 survivors in-
long-term friendship with there other causes? Is this clude three who found air
Myanmar’s various par- not rational to ask?” pockets in the overturned
ties including the National Xia, whose older brother boat and were pulled out
League for Democracy,” Xia Qinchen, from the by divers on Tuesday af-
Chinese Foreign Ministry eastern coastal city of Qin- ter rescuers tapped the
spokesman Hong Lei said gdao, was a passenger, hull and heard yelling in
at a news briefing.q demanded that relatives response.q
