Panel of United Nations experts warns that a million children form Tibet have been placed in Chinese schools designed to strip them of their language and culture
, it promised that the “religious beliefs, customs and habits of the Tibetan people” would be respected. China’s fourth constitution, adopted in 1982, codified the right of all ethnic groups “to use and develop their own spoken and written languages and to preserve … their own ways and customs.”, seeking, in the words of Chinese President Xi Jinping, to “bind the people of each ethnic group into a single strand of rope.
Gyal Lo, a Tibetan scholar and education expert, has seen this first-hand. He was working at a university in southwestern China in 2016 when his brother asked him to come home and check on his grandnieces. For years, Dr. Lo had tried to work within the system to encourage the teaching of Tibetan language and culture and push back against the assimilationist shift he could see developing. But even he was shocked to see the effect on his grandnieces.
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