actully, chinese government tried them best to mimimum the death could happen,just because this is huge earthquake,it happens the area huge mountain and rivers and cliffs, even the chinese army special forces spend 30-40 hours to reach only 30-40% disaster area,there is still 30% area can not be reached. even use helicopter ,special air force ,since these area are all hard to get there when earthquake happens most road collapsed,river way changed.All the rescue team had to walk into these area,it really need LOTS OF TIME,even already use 95 000 army includ special air force used.
these areas are moutain area really hard to climb and it is also a great sightseeing area,not like plain area much easier to get into.
Hello tjt322, welcome to FR.
Thanks for helping us understand this tragedy.
God bless,
Joya
Helicopters can help get supplies and rescue workers closer to the areas of devastation.
Our armed forces have flown helicopters in many missions of mercy in other countries bringing help and aid to people in disasters.
During our worst disaster, the hurricane Katrina (which devastated an area the size of England on our Gulf coast and flooded our city of New Orleans), our Coast Guard helicopters rescued over 37,000 people from rooftops and other areas.
I understand the traditional fears of letting in foreign governments and armed forces helicopters into your country to help out, but it is a shame that there is such fears between peoples when they need help.
I know well about what we call “The Rape of Nanking” in the 1930’s by the Japanese, and the hundreds of thousands of deaths they caused. The Japanese visited atrocities on many countries and peoples in those decades of war, including ours. We lost many tens of thousands of soldiers fighting the Japanese in the Pacific, and they treated our prisioners of war and British prisoners very badly, marching them to their death, including women and children. We were China’s ally then and we could be friends again, I hope.
Time passes; governments change; people change their thinking; and we now have few left in our country who understand and remember those terrible things, because Japan has changed its form of government and its people have more say in the decisions that are made.
My great hope is that the internet will help this improvement in relations between the peoples of the world.