Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/parents-blame-poor-government-oversight-for-childrens-deaths-in-china-quake Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript The government of China fears a popular movement of parents of children killed by collapsing schools in the recent earthquake in Sichuan Province. Lindsey Hilsum of ITN's Channel 4 News reports on the outcry over perceived government corruption that led to shoddy construction and the parent's plea for accountability. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. GWEN IFILL: Now, the grief and the anger for thousands of Chinese parents who lost children in the earthquake five weeks ago. We begin with a report from Lindsey Hilsum of Independent Television News. She traveled to the town of Jiandi in Sichuan province.LINDSEY HILSUM, ITN's Channel 4 News Correspondent: A few weeks ago, they had their school photos taken. They should have been sitting their high school exam this week.Fifty-six children died at Jiandi Middle School. The parents who built this shrine were initially overwhelmed by grief. Now they want government officials to answer their questions.Wang Zhen Fu shows us his 15-year-old son, Wan Bin (ph). WANG ZHEN FU, Parent (through translator): When I arrived less than 20 minutes after the earthquake, the whole building had already collapsed. We tried to dig the children out of the rubble. The survivors told us it had crumbled in less than a minute. My son died right away. He was in his chemistry class. LINDSEY HILSUM: Zhao Yuan Zhi's son, Wu Shao Yang (ph), also perished. ZHAO YUAN ZHI, Parent (through translator): We all have just one child. We want the government to give us justice so our children should not have died in vain. The government officials never came to see us, so we've been to see them.