‘Everyone seems to have forgotten’: In Tibet, flood-hit families search for the missing and grapple with China’s silence

Sun, 6 Sep 2026 21:59:33 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/nepal-tibet-floods-disaster-search-for-missing-china-censorship>

"Fan Hong last heard from her husband on the morning of the Nepal-Tibet
disaster. More than a week later, the 31-year-old is desperately searching for
information about Lin Bo, who was working on a Chinese highway project in
Nepal. Struggling to get information from authorities, Fan turned to social
media for help.

“My husband works on a project in Nepal, about 5 kilometres from the Gyirong
border crossing. I want to know what the situation is, but I haven’t been able
to reach him,” the 31-year-old from China’s Sichuan province wrote on Rednote.

Her post has gained more than 18,000 likes and nearly 4,600 comments. She is
one of many in China with missing loved ones trying to piece together
information they are finding online, as Tibetan advocate groups say information
is being suppressed on that side of the border."

Via Susan ****

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