Friday, October 17, 2003

Today's hoot (if you like black humor)

From Gweilo Diaries:
Channel 4 (UK) travels to the Yangtze to look at the corruption surrounding the building of the Three Gorges Dam:
Xiang Tian San: "They told us to move up the hill and re-locate over there. They tore down my old home. My wife was inside at the time and she was killed. And they didn't give us enough compensation. So we've not got a new house. Only this shelter I built."
They demolished his house with his wife still inside it!?! That seems pretty bloody careless, even for a communist.