The 15th anniversary of a devastating earthquake in the southwestern province of Sichuan was commemorated with a propaganda video on Friday that sparked criticism from bereaved parents who say the causes of the school collapses have never been investigated. The video focused on improvements in the lives of survivors over the past decade-and-a-half, while the Global Times reported on improvements in “disaster prevention” on Friday in a bid to put a positive spin on the anniversary. Many parents whose children died due to substandard construction in school buildings say they are still silenced, detained, and harassed if they continue to call for an investigation that was promised into the deaths of 5,000 children, which their families largely blame on rampant official corruption.

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