Families of Missing Tibet Pilgrims Demand Answers From China

In the high reaches of Tibet, where pilgrimage has long been an act of devotion and identity, families now wait in a silence not of their choosing — their relatives gone, the authorities quiet, and the distance between grief and answers measured in bureaucratic walls. The disappearance of Tibetan pilgrims has become more than a missing persons matter; it is a reckoning with what transparency means when the state controls the terrain, both physical and informational. These families are asking the oldest of human questions — where are our people, and who is responsible for knowing — and in doing