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China is increasingly creating boarding schools for Tibetan children, who are often separated from their families as young as 4 years old. The policy of deliberate assimilation creates distance between parents and children and contributes to the erosion of Tibetan culture.
By Harold Thibault (Haidong (China), special correspondent)
Construction sites in China progress at breakneck speed, and the one for the new high school in the Tibetan prefecture of Golog, launched a year ago, was no exception. Behind the hoardings, cranes and dump trucks, the structure of the buildings was already complete. “Girls’ dormitory” was written in blue letters on one building. Another indicated that it would house classrooms.
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