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...
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UN Rights Experts Call China to Account over Residential Schools and Assimilation Policies in Tibet
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 10 January 2023 78% of Tibetan students aged 6 to 18 separated from their families and forced into China’s colonial boarding school system in Tibet UN human rights experts have raised urgent concern about China’s residential [1] schools in Tibet, which are part of a “large scale campaign [by the Chinese authorities]...
China Separating 4-year-old Kids From Parents For Indoctrination In Tibet: Report
Original Article: https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/rest-of-the-world-news/china-separating-4-year-old-kids-from-parents-for-indoctrination-in-tibet-report.html A recent report by the Tibet Action Institute has revealed China’s vast system of ‘colonial boarding schools’ inside Tibet, where children as young as four are separated from their parents. As per the report titled, ‘Separated from their families, hidden from the world- China’s vast system of colonial boarding schools inside Tibet’, Chinese government policies are...
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 boarding schools strip Tibetan children of language: study
Original Article: https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/China-s-boarding-schools-strip-Tibetan-children-of-language-study HONG KONG — Chinese government policies are forcing three out of four Tibetan children into state-run boarding schools, separating them from their families and threatening to erase their mother tongue, cultural identity and traditions, according to a new investigative report. The report by Tibet Action Institute, a campaign group based in the U.S.,...