Tag: Tibetan language rights

Tibet: The Final Solution?
February 25, 2021February 25, 2021
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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,...

Tibetan netizens express the need for their mother-tongue
May 4, 2020May 4, 2020
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Tibetan netizens express the need for their mother-tongue

In early April, schools in Ngaba, eastern Tibet reopened following the Covid-19 outbreak. However, schools were told the use of Tibetan language in classes would be scrapped as of September, when the next academic year begins. Human Rights Watch detailed that threat in primary schools in Tibet: the gradual replacement of Tibetan-language instruction with the...

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