When floodwaters receded along the Tibet side of the China-Nepal border, they left behind not only ruin but a profound institutional silence — no official casualty figures, no missing persons list, no governmental accounting of the lost. Into that void, families turned to their phones, posting names and faces on social media as an act of both mourning and witness. It is an old human impulse rendered in a new form: when the state will not count the dead, the living count them instead. The question this raises — about transparency, accountability, and who holds the authority to document sufferin
Families Turn to Social Media to Mourn Tibet Flood Victims as Authorities Stay Silent
Families experienced deaths and disappearances in the Tibet flood, with the exact toll unknown due to lack of official casualty lists.