Every few years, there are incidents of miners trapped underground, with herculean efforts to free the survivors. Each time, I ponder whether there have been si

Every few years, there are incidents of miners trapped underground, with herculean efforts to free the survivors. Each time, I ponder whether there have been similar tragedies, in some corrupt society, where the mine is bulldozed over, any survivors left to die alone in the darkness, none ever knowing of their suffering.