(1) 杜君立：75·8浩劫. 共识网, Aug 15, 2011
http://www.21ccom.net/articles/lsjd/lccz/article_2011081443213.html
, the second half of which is copied everywhere, because the first half sternly takes China, and CCP, to task. For example:
Even CCP's mouth pieces conceded it, except the number of deaths RESULTING FROM THE FLOOD (they did not mention deaths later caused by infectious diseases, such as those that occurred in Haiti after the earthquake in January 2010, due to cholera).
(1) After 30 Years, Secrets, Lessons of China's Worst Dams Burst Accident Surface. Xinhua, Oct 1, 2005
http://english.people.com.cn/200510/01/eng20051001_211892.html
("Official statistics recorded 30 years after the dams bursts show more than 26,000 people were killed in the floods * * * But some meteorologists and researchers said the figure might be even bigger. 'The number may be revised some day in future,' said Wang Yanrong, an official with Henan Province Department of Water Resources who has studied the province's flood disaster death tolls for years. 'It depends on further and more thorough study of related files, documents and our data.'")
My comment: Come on now. China has to wait decades to know how many people died?
(2) Ecologists Dread New Dam Boom. Global Times, Feb 10, 2011
http://special.globaltimes.cn/2011-04/621272_4.html
("On August 8, 1975, Banqiao Dam * * * collapsed. * * * 26,000 people died in the floods, according to the official death toll. After the flood receded, 145,000 people died from epidemics and from famine. Some estimates put the total death toll at more than 220,000. * * *A Discovery Channel show on May 28, 2005, rated the Banqiao Dam collapse No.1 on a list of the 'Top 10 Technological Catastrophes of the World,' beating the Bhopal toxic gas leak in India on December 3, 1984, and the Chernobyl nuclear accident on April 26, 1986.")