By Josh Rogin Original article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/01/china-tibet-identity-cultural-genocide/ “Genocide” is a powerful charge, often leveled at repressive regimes and warring states when they are openly mass murdering civilians. But some genocides take place slowly and methodically, without large-scale killing and outside the public’s view. Tibetans are making a strong case that the Chinese government is attempting to wipe...
Author: Tibet Action Institute (Tibet Action Institute)
China shows off a Tibetan boarding school that’s part of a system some see as forced assimilation
By Ken Moritsugu Original article: https://apnews.com/article/tibet-china-boarding-schools-6881277c7f22dd97a2e3459067756297 SHANGRI-LA TOWN, China (AP) — First-grade students, hands folded on their desks, watch a teacher write a brush-like stroke on a blackboard in their Tibetan alphabet. Outside, craggy mountains climb toward the brightest of blue skies. The air is clean and crisp at 2,800 meters (9,100 feet), if a...
US calls on China to open Tibet for investigation
Item 4 General Debate Right of Reply to the People’s Republic of China As delivered by Deputy Permanent Representative Kelly Billingsley September 27, 2023 Original post: https://twitter.com/USAmbHRC/status/1707066575163887647 •Thank you, Mr. Vice President. This Right of Reply is in response to the statement by the delegate from the People’s Republic of China. •The PRC suggests the...
New York Times Op-ed: The One Million Tibetan Children in China’s Boarding Schools
By Gyal Lo Dr. Lo is an educational sociologist and a Tibetan activist based in Canada. Original link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/opinion/the-one-million-tibetan-children-in-chinas-boarding-schools.html One day in late November 2016, back home in Tibet, I received a distressing call from my brother telling me I needed to check on his granddaughters. “Something very strange is happening,” he said. My young relatives,...
For Immediate Release September 4, 2023 Statement of Lhadon Tethong, Director of Tibet Action Institute, in response to the recent PRC Government-organized trip of UN Ambassadors to Tibet, August 28-September 2, 2023. Boston – The Chinese government organized a tour of Tibet from August 28-Sept 2 [1] for a group of Ambassadors to the UN...