[CarrotAndStick]

Shiho Fukada for The New York Times
 

Yu Tingyun, left, lost his daughter, Yang, in the May earthquake in southwest China, and Huang Lianfen, right, lost a nephew. Ms. Huang holds an agreement that Chinese officials want parents to sign, saying they will not hold protests about collapsed schools.

 

	European Pressphoto Agency Parents of some of the Dongqi students killed in the school collapse protested at a government office in Mianzhu on May 31.

[Army Air Corps]

Pei-ping.

[flushing_kenny]

Not like they had much of choice. No hope of suing when everything is stacked against you and you could go to jail for blaming the “system” (corrupt communists).