51. More straw mats as well as buckets with water for the ritual washing of hands were passed from inside the Tomb to those outside. 52. Nights are spent on thick quilts laid out on woven straw mats in rooms all but bare of furniture. 53. Others are placed on feces-stained beds or on straw mats in the prison clinic. 54. Scavengers picked through the bamboo poles, straw mats and plastic sheeting Wednesday in the wasteland that remained of Democracy Square. 55. Scavengers picked through the bamboo poles, straw mats and plastic sheeting Wednesday in the waste that remained of Democracy Square. 56. Scavengers picked through the bamboo poles, straw mats and plastic sheeting Wednesday in the wasteland that remained of the protest camp, dubbed Democracy Square. 57. Some slept on straw mats beside sacks, plastic bags and fraying cardboard boxes crammed with portable stoves, cooking oil, toy cars and other belongings. 58. Some snoozed on straw mats. 59. The next morning, she and other survivors gathered the bodies, wrapped them in straw mats and buried them in a common grave. 60. The park was a wasteland of plastic sheeting, bags and straw mats. |