Terry Glavin is an author and journalist.Original article: https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/glavin-diplomatic-boycott-of-the-beijing-olympics-isnt-a-big-step-but-it-will-have-to-do So, as things have turned out, the democracies declaring their intention to boycott February’s Winter Games in Beijing had grown numerous enough by Wednesday for Justin Trudeau’s government to include itself by hiding in the crowd and hoping Beijing wouldn’t particularly notice. That’s what the Trudeau government...
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The horrors of Canada’s residential schools are being repeated in Tibet
Original Article: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-horrors-of-canadas-residential-schools-are-being-repeated-in-tibet/ Tsering Yangzom Lama is a Tibetan-Canadian novelist and activist. Her debut novel, We Measure the Earth with our Bodies, will be published next year. The surest way to eradicate a culture is to sever that culture from its children. This week, we learned that China has forced almost 80 per cent of Tibetan children to leave...
Tibet: 78% Of Children Separated From Parents, Forced To Study In In Chinese Colonial Boarding Schools As Part Of ‘Sinicization’ Agenda
Chinese government policies are forcing three out of four Tibetan students into a vast network of colonial boarding schools, separating 800,000-900,000 children aged 6-18 from their families and communities, according to a report by Tibet Action Institute, an advocacy group dedicated to advancing the Tibetan freedom movement. The report says that these network of boarding schools...
Tibet Action Institute uncovers China’s vast system of colonial boarding schools inside Tibet
Original Article: https://www.aninews.in/news/world/us/tibet-action-institute-uncovers-chinas-vast-system-of-colonial-boarding-schools-inside-tibet20211210053636/
China’s huge system of colonial boarding schools in Tibet is exposed by Tibet Action Institute.
Original Article: https://www.tibetanjournal.com/chinas-huge-system-of-colonial-boarding-schools-in-tibet-is-exposed-by-tibet-action-institute/ Dharamshala, 10th December: China’s enormous system of colonial boarding schools inside Tibet, which removes children as young as four from their parents, was revealed in research released on Tuesday by Tibet Action Institute. “Separated from their families, hidden from the world – China’s massive system of colonial boarding schools within Tibet,” according...
Boarding Schools for Tibet’s Nearly 1 Million Children Erasing Native Language, Culture: NGO Report
Original Article: https://www.visiontimes.com/2021/12/09/boarding-schools-for-tibets-nearly-1-million-children-erasing-native-language-culture-ngo-report.html A report released by the The Tibet Action Institute (TAI) on Dec. 7 describes how children in Tibet as young as four have been forced into attending a vast boarding school system created by the Chinese regime. Students in these schools receive a “politicized” education, mainly in Chinese, and are unable to practice Tibetan...
China’s coercive school system aims to make children alien to their Tibetan root
Original article: https://www.tibetanreview.net/chinas-coercive-school-system-aims-to-make-children-alien-to-their-tibetan-root/ (TibetanReview.net, Dec08’21) – China has set up in Tibet a vast network of boarding schools where children as young as four years old have been coerced to enroll and kept away from their parents and community to be moulded as Chinese-speaking and -cultured citizens, totally alien to their parental roots. It is...