Author: Tibet Action Institute (Tibet Action Institute)

Original Article: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-tibetan-children-residential-schools/ When China annexed Tibet in the 1950s, it promised that the “religious beliefs, customs and habits of the Tibetan people” would be respected. China’s fourth constitution, adopted in 1982, codified the right of all ethnic groups “to use and develop their own spoken and written languages and to preserve … their own ways...

Original link: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/02/china-un-experts-alarmed-separation-1-million-tibetan-children-families-and GENEVA (6 February 2023) – Around a million children of the Tibetan minority were being affected by Chinese government policies aimed at assimilating Tibetan people culturally, religiously and linguistically through a residential school system, UN experts* warned today. “We are very disturbed that in recent years the residential school system for Tibetan...

by Tenzin Dorjee and Amber French Self-immolation is an unthinkably costly and tragic method of last resort sometimes used by those striving for justice and freedom in asymmetric conflicts. The first person to perform this fiery protest as a modern political tactic is Thich Quang Duc, who sat in the lotus position at a busy intersection in Saigon...