By the time our presses stopped running our coverage of the mining disaster relied on attributed sources.

She's acknowledged that they were treated well.

Our reporters made initial inquiries about the adoptions, as they did about many other aspects of his background. They did so with great care, understanding the sensitivity of the issue. We have not pursued the issue after the initial inquiries, which detected nothing irregular about the adoptions.

We will continue to report on the disaster and its aftermath in order to explain how the actual situation varied from the accounts made by these sources.