Sichuan, China ... tourists flock to the scene of the earthquake of 12 May 2008 where 20 000 people are dead !
Monday 18 May 2009
In the newspaper Libération, 13 May, a report signed "Abel Segretin" sends shivers down your spine. Entitled "The Sichuan earthquake macabre souvenir", he explained that the city of Beichuan, wiped off the map by the earthquake of 12 May 2008 with the death of nearly two-thirds of its population, is the destination of thousands of Chinese.
So the weekend of May 1st, over 500 000 "tourists ruins" as they are known locally have poured into the devastated city of Sichuan Province. Museum of the earthquake with projected images of collapse and room that move reproducing the tremor of 7.8 on the Richter scale, postcards and DVDs of the disaster, broken objects ... This type of tourism is called "Tourism" ...