Yahoo – AFP,
19 Dec 2014
Grieving family members of Chinese passengers from a missing Malaysia Airlines flight protested outside the foreign ministry in Beijing Friday accusing the government of failing to provide them with regular updates on the search for the aircraft.
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| Relatives of passengers from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 speak to a policeman as he makes a phone call outside the Foreign Ministry in Beijing on December 19, 2014. (AFP) |
Grieving family members of Chinese passengers from a missing Malaysia Airlines flight protested outside the foreign ministry in Beijing Friday accusing the government of failing to provide them with regular updates on the search for the aircraft.
About 30
people, many of them elderly, gathered at the gates of the ministry with
temperatures approaching freezing and were confronted by a line of police.
They
demanded to speak to government officials in a bid to get more information on
the search for flight MH370. Police manhandled and pushed protesters that
attempted to enter the gate and warned passersby to leave the area immediately.
"My
son is alive and I want to know what the government is doing to find him,"
said Liu Dianyun, the mother of one of the passengers.
Some drove
for two hours to attend the demonstration, despite acknowledging that their
efforts were unlikely to produce results.
Chinese
passengers account for about two-thirds of the 239 people who were aboard the
Boeing 777, which vanished on March 8 en route from Kuala Lumpur to China's
capital.
Dozens of
their relatives were reportedly beaten and arrested earlier this year.
Australia
has been spearheading the hunt for the plane, which is believed to have crashed
in the southern Indian Ocean off western Australia.
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