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U.N. Experts Alarmed by China's Treatment of 1 Million Tibetan Children [View all]
Source: https://www.newsweek.com/un-special-rapporteur-chi
Agroup of U.N. experts said Monday they were alarmed by China's years-long policy of "forced assimilation," which has sent nearly 1 million Tibetan minority children to boarding schools for compulsory Han-Chinese education.
The Chinese government aims to acculturate the Tibetan people "culturally, religiously and linguistically" by placing children in a residential school system where they lack "substantive study" of their own language, history and culture, the three rights experts said.
Read more: Newsweek
the genocide of non-han cultures continues in China.
the apologist would downplay this and point to USA for doing the same thing to Native Americans 100 years ago.
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