Our report uncovers China's massive colonial boarding school system in Tibet. 800,000 - 900,000 Tibetan children ages 6-18 are separated frm their parents & families in schools designed to strip them of their identity. This # doesn't include 4 & 5 yr-olds in boarding pre-schools.
https://twitter.com/tibetaction/status/1468397859045261321
Tibetan parents have no choice but to send their children away to these schools. All alternatives are being shut down, incl. local rural schools & Tibetan-run private & monastery schools. They are threatened & penalized if they resist & they not free to protest or push 4 change.
China's colonial boarding schools aim to eliminate Tibetan identity by making children learn primarily in Chinese, cutting them off frm their religion & cultural roots & turning them into patriotic citizens loyal to the Communist Party through intensive political indoctrination.
Researchers in China & Tibet have documented children in these state-run institutions to be suffering from serious emotional & psychological distress as a result of being made to live away from their homes & families & isolated in schools run with "miliatary-style mgmt".
We call on @UNHumanRights @MBachelet to urgently seek unfettered access to Tibet & investigate China's colonial boarding schools. Like-minded govts must speak out & demand China restore right of Tibetan children to live w family & receive high quality mother tongue education.
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