riwoche རི་བོ་ཆེ་: Or you subsequently find out they are held incommunicado at an undisclosed location for nearly 30 years, as is the case with the Panchen Lama of Tibet who at the time was the world's youngest political prisoner. www.state.gov/marking-29-y...

life under authoritarian regimes is like war: most Americans don’t know that it’s often really normal and boring, up until the rarer, horrible moments when it isn’t

Pretty much. What it mostly boils down to is that most Americans really don’t have the faintest idea what living under modern authoritarian regimes actually looks like, and how it’s often at the same time way more boring and way more scary than they’d imagined.

people you know go missing, and you never find out what happened to them

Or you subsequently find out they are held incommunicado at an undisclosed location for nearly 30 years, as is the case with the Panchen Lama of Tibet who at the time was the world's youngest political prisoner. www.state.gov/marking-29-y...

Marking 29 Years Since the Panchen Lama’s Disappearance - United States Department of Statewww.state.gov Today marks 29 years since the People’s Republic of China (PRC) abducted the 11th Panchen Lama, one of the most important figures in Tibetan Buddhism, as a six-year-old child. Gedhun Choekyi Nyima re...

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