Chinese colonialism? Beijing forcing 1 mn Tibetan children into boarding schools, erasing cultural identity

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At least 100,000 are preschoolers between the ages of 4 and 6, and over 900,000 older children from Tibet have been forcibly placed in Chinese government-run boarding schools

More than one million Tibetan children and adolescents have been forcibly placed in Chinese government-run boarding schools across Tibet, where they are subjected to abuse, neglect and political indoctrination, according to a new report released Friday by the Tibetan Action Institute (TAI).

Among them, at least 100,000 are preschoolers between the ages of 4 and 6, the report said. Citing interviews with Tibetan parents and fieldwork conducted by researchers, the...

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