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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
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