Over 250,000 Sign Petition Urging UN Action on Tibet’s Colonial Boarding Schools
By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 11 Feb: More than 2,50,000 people have signed a petition urging UN High Commissioner Volker Turk to break his silence on China’s colonial boarding schools in occupied Tibet, which aim to assimilate an entire generation of Tibetan children into the dominant Han culture, risking the permanent discontinuation of the generational transmission of distinct Tibetan language and culture.
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