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16 trapped in NE China colliery flooding

by Amitjha | April 3, 2009 at 10:01 pm

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In yet another incident of mine related accident 16 people are fighting with death in flooded mine in north east province of China.How safe are Chinese mines for the workers? Do they follow the standard safety measures?

These are unanswerable question at least in case of China.Hope the miners will get rescued by the Government in time.

Sixteen workers were trapped in a flooded coal mine Saturday in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, local authorities said.

The accident occurred at about 5 a.m. when 22 miners were working in Xingnong Township, Jixi City. Six escaped and 16 others were still missing as of Saturday noon, according to the information office of Jixi city government.

Rescue work and an investigation into the cause of the flood are underway.

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Roy C

at 22:56 on April 3rd, 2009

When the state owns the means of production, instead of serving the people, it serves itself. That is what Marx missed. It is harder to go after the mine operators when the mine operators are the government.

"People ahead of profits", what anarchists and socialists want- what you don't get in a socialist society.

We want a government that is accountable to the people and a government that makes the coal mine operators accountable to the government and to the people.

Amitjha

at 23:24 on April 3rd, 2009

Well it is valid point that the accoutability is missing in case of Chinese Model of Governance, but the other system are also not perfect, they have there owm demerits, the financial crisis and suffering millions are the outcome of Capitalist greed.

In any case it is the people who suffers not the ideologies.It changes as the need demands.