A harrowing @BBCWorld report reveals the struggles of Tibetan children in China's colonial boarding schools. This important and in-depth story, the first of its kind, emerges just days after Tibet was once again ranked the least free place in the world:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct4m8g
On February 23, 2024, Dr Gyal Lo addressed the opening session of the 9th Tibet Support Group Conference held in Brussels, Belgium. Watch his powerful speech as he spoke about the Colonial Boarding Schools in Tibet and his personal reflections on his responsibilities in exile.
The abduction of Tibetan children and forced assimilation practices through Chinese boarding schools in Tibet December 14, 2023 Parliament strongly condemns the repressive assimilation policies in place throughout China, especially the boarding school system in Tibet that seeks to eliminate the distinct linguistic, cultural, and religious traditions among Tibetans and other minorities, such as Uyghurs....
Chinese Boarding Schools and the Indoctrination of a Generation Orginal article: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/tibet/erasing-tibet Image above: At a state-run boarding school in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 2021 Martin Pollard / Reuters November 28, 2023 By Tenzin Dorjee and Gyal Lo November 28, 2023 China’s brutal treatment of Uyghur Muslims in the western region of Xinjiang has...
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...
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...
