Banyan:Grave conceres

摘要

In singapore, a small, crowded island where the population has more than doubled in a generation, the dead have long had to make way for the living and the unborn. In the 1960s, as a graveyard was cleared, a government minister dismissed objections with the question: "Do you want me to look after our dead grandparents, or do you want to look after your grandchildren?" These days, however, resistance to the planned building of an eight-lane expressway through another cemetery, at Bukit Brown, is less easily swept aside. Not only is this a special cemetery-the biggest Chinese graveyard outside China, and Singapore's first municipal pan-Chinese one (as opposed to those for different clans or dialect groups).