[quote=“Charlie Phillips”][quote=“Icon”]Sigh
[quote]Taipei, May 15 (CNA) Many survivors of a housing complex that collapsed during an earthquake in Tainan in February, returned to the site of their former home Sunday for a memorial ceremony to mark the 100th day of the tragedy that took 115 human lives.
They brought sweets, dolls, fresh flowers and paper cranes they had folded by hand to the ceremony, leaving the objects on the ground along with cards, on which they wrote down words of deep sadness for the loss of their family members.
Sunday marked the 100th day since the death of her family members, said Liu Yi-chen (劉怡辰), chair of the Weiguan Jinlong Building Victims Families Association, who lost her husband and three children during the disastrous collapse on Feb. 6.
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The debris of the collapsed building has already been removed, leaving a level, empty lot that is fenced and waiting for its future destiny.
Liu said around 60 percent of the surviving residents wish their homes to be rebuilt through an urban renewal program, while some 20 percent want the land to be sold and the rest are holding a wait-and-see attitude.
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The jerry-built Weiguan Jinlong housing complex in the southern Taiwan municipal city of Tainan collapsed during a magnitude 6.3 earthquake Feb. 6, killing a total of 115 people. Prosecutors indicted five private builders of the building April 7 on charges of “genocide through professional negligence.”
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“genocide” … ? That’s a bit strong, isn’t it? Random death, even on a large scale, caused by professional negligence is usually considered simple murder.[/quote]
Maybe if the building was occupied by a single surname clan, like, the Liaos, and someone really had it in for them. That could be genocide.