New York Times investigation finds Tibetan children suffering widespread and systematic physical and psychological harm, cultural erasure in Chinese government-run boarding system For Immediate Release January 9, 2025 Boston – A groundbreaking exposé in the New York Times published today paints a disturbing picture of the severe mental, emotional, and physical harms being inflicted on...
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Videos Show Principal Beating Tibetan Child in Boarding School
Reports of Child’s Death at Separate School Trigger Calls for Investigations For Immediate Release December 16, 2024 Boston – Footage of the principal of a boarding elementary school in Tibet beating a young Tibetan boy around November 18th 2024 has gone viral on Chinese social media. While reports of the death of a child at...
MPs urge Canada to sanction officials responsible for Chinese-run residential schools in Tibet
Original article: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-mps-urge-canada-to-sanction-officials-responsible-for-chinese-run/ A parliamentary committee is calling on Ottawa to sanction officials responsible for China-run residential boarding schools in Tibet and to issue a statement calling for an end to the system, which it says mirrors Canada’s historical treatment of Indigenous children. Nine-hundred-thousand Tibetan children in China have been separated from families and forcibly required to...
Full-blown boycott pushed for 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing
ESPN (Associated Press): https://www.espn.co.uk/olympics/story/_/id/31459936/full-blown-boycott-pushed-2022-winter-olympics-beijing Groups alleging human rights abuses against minorities in China are calling for a full-blown boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, a move likely to ratchet up pressure on the International Olympic Committee, athletes, sponsors and sports federations. A coalition representing Uyghurs, Tibetans, residents of Hong Kong and others issued a...
Tibet: The Final Solution?
In this episode of The Little Red Podcast Tibet Action’s Tenzin Dorjee joined author Barbara Demick and historian Benno Weiner to discuss alarming developments in China’s colonial strategies toward Tibet. They discuss Beijing’s three-front assault on Tibetan language, religion and way of life, the sharp rise in the general level of fear among ordinary people,...
TESTIMONY OF TENZIN DORJEE, TIBET ACTION INSTITUTE, BEFORE THE CONGRESSIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMISSION ON CHINA
Thank you Chairman McGovern, Co-chair Mr. Rubio, and members of the Commission for allowing me to testify on behalf of the Tibetan people. Over the course of seven decades, the Chinese government has waged an unrelenting campaign of violence and coercion aimed at eradicating the Tibetan people’s faith, identity, and way of life. As China...
Lhadon Tethong interview with Gravitas: China is running a campaign to destroy ‘Free Tibet’
The disturbing news of China’s mass forced labor scheme in Tibet caught the world by surprise this week. In this interview on Gravitas with Palki Sharm (WION TV), Tibet Action Director, talks about China’s true intention with this program, why Chinese leaders are terrified of Tibetan resistance, and what India can do to support Tibetans...
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