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by Lopsang Gurung
The mudslide at Gyirong Port has produced two parallel tragedies. One is the disaster itself. The other is the campaign launched to silence anyone who dares to estimate its human cost. The authorities have announced that the “Clean Internet 2026” operation is progressing with great vigor, and the list of punished citizens grows longer every day. Ten cases have been released as examples of what happens when ordinary people try to make sense of a catastrophe that unfolded too quickly for official narratives to keep pace.
The punished citizens did not organize a movement. They did not publish investigative reports. They did not leak confidential documents. They posted numbers. Qiu wrote that the news mentioned 1,400 dead between Nepal and Tibet, while he had heard of 3,000 missi...
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