This is why so many Tibetans ran away as refugees from Tibet to live in other places like Canada, the United States and India. When we asked China where the real Panchen Lama and his family had disappeared to in May 1995, they told us that they didn't know. We asked them again and again. They said they still didn't know. Then one year later they admitted that they knew where he was all along.
People tell lies because they are trying to hide something.
Usually it is something they are ashamed of, or something they know is not right. This is why China's government said that Gedhun Choekyi Nyima's parents asked them to hide him because they were afraid that Tibetans would kill him. This is just one example of a government that tells lies to their people. These types of lies are called propaganda . China also says that the boy that the Dalai Lama chose as the Panchen Lama is not the true one.