Category: Press

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...

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...

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,...

Original link: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/un-envoys-tour-tibet-china-organised-trip-amid-rights-scrutiny-2023-09-01/ GENEVA/BEIJING, Sept 1 (Reuters) – A group of U.N. ambassadors are touring Tibet on a trip arranged by China, diplomats said, an apparent push by Beijing to counter mounting criticism of its human rights record ahead of a review by the global body in early 2024. Photos posted on the social media...

Original Link: https://2021-2025.state.gov/announcement-of-visa-restrictions-to-address-forced-assimilation-in-tibet/ The State Department is taking steps to impose visa restrictions under the authority of Section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act on People’s Republic of China (PRC) officials for their involvement in the forcible assimilation of more than one million Tibetan children in government-run boarding schools.  These coercive policies seek to...