The epic scale of the destruction in China is hard to comprehend. The suffering of the millions left homeless will be less easy to understand because we won't hear about it, or if we do, it will be through the positive new reality vision of China's state media.

The relocation of some 12 million homeless Chinese into government camps has begun.

Fighting amongst aid volunteers and desperate quake victims for food and water in Mianyang :

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For the tens of thousands who died, including many thousands of young children, there were no funerals. In the rush to remove the dead, to stop the spread of disease, many were quickly fed into crematoriums. For the rest, there were only mass graves :