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2016年5月25日VOA常速新闻:尼泊尔地震一周年 民众示威不满灾后重建工作缓慢

Thousands of Nepalis marked the one-year anniversary Sundaya powerful earthquake, grieving the loss of nearly 9,000people. About 100 protesters clashed with riot police outsidethe prime minister's office, demonstrating against the slow paceof the Nepalese recovery. Max Santer of the Red Cross says thegovernment has been preoccupied with political issues.

"The government after the civil war and over the last two years when they were working on theconstitution, the focus was on the transition from a monarchy to a republican system. All thesetasks of the government, of the state, were neglected. And it's the same now with the recoveryactually, the government is neglecting, to a huge degree actually, the needs of the people in thehills or in the mountains where the earthquake happened."