Tibetan education sociologist, Dr. Gyal Lo talks about his research and experience around the colonial residential schooling system in Tibet.
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Over 900,000 children have been separated from their families and communities and sent into a vast network of colonial boarding schools and pre-schools across Tibet. There they are taught only what the Chinese Communist Party wants them to learn. And yet, the only problem with these numbers is that they are likely to be an underestimate.
The fightback has already begun. In early 2022, Free Tibet and partners around the world launched a huge campaign to urge the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to speak out against the CCP’s colonial school policy. The response was huge: nearly 19,000 people signed the petition and shortly after, the High Commissioner, who was previously silent on Tibet, raised concerns about the policy.
We need to do more. Our next target is the G7 group of governments. Some of the countries in the G7 can look to their own history, when previous governments ran colonial boarding schools themselves. Today, discussions and debates are taking place to find ways to address the damage done by these policies.
This policy must not be repeated. We need to urge the G7 to demand that the CCP shuts down its own colonial boarding system and that it stops treating Tibet’s children as pawns in its strategy to take over Tibet.
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This video was created with the help of friends at Voice of America
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