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A report by Tibet Action Institute on Tuesday uncovered China's vast system of colonial boarding schools inside Tibet which separates children as young as four from their parents.The report titled "Separated from their families, hidden from the world - China's vast system of colonial boarding schools inside Tibet" showed Chinese government policies are forcing three out of every four Tibetan students into a vast network of colonial boarding schools, subjected to indoctrination.The schools are a cornerstone of Xi Jinping's campaign to supplant Tibetan identity with a homogenous Chinese identity in order to neutralize potential resistance to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule, reported Tibet Action Institute.The report finds that an estimated 800,000 to 900,000 Tibetan students aged six to 18, as well as an unknown number of four and five-year-olds, are in these state-run schools. The schools function as sites for remoulding children into Chinese nationals loyal to the CCP.Removed from their families and communities, students must study primarily in Chinese, are barred from practising their religion, and are subjected to political indoctrination, added Tibet Action Institute."By intentionally uprooting Tibetan children from their families and culture and making them live in state-run boarding schools, the Chinese authorities are using one of the most heinous tools of colonization to attack Tibetan identity," said Lhadon Tethong, Director of Tibet Action Institute."China's unprecedented campaign of forced sinicization in Tibet targets even the youngest children and demands the urgent intervention of the United Nations and concerned governments," said Tethong.Over the last decade, Chinese authorities have systematically eliminated local schools in Tibet and replaced them with centralized boarding schools, including for elementary-aged children.Monastery schools and other privately-run Tibetan schools have also been forced to close, leaving parents with no choice but to send their children away. In cases where parents try to resist, authorities use threats and intimidation to ensure compliance, reported Tibet Action Institute.Researchers in Tibet and China have documented serious emotional and psychological harm to Tibetan students living in colonial boarding schools.Restrictions on access to Tibet make first-hand verification of current conditions impossible, but interviews with Tibetans abroad who attended earlier iterations of boarding school in Tibet paint a harrowing picture of children living in poor conditions, subjected to physical and sexual abuse, racism and discrimination, as well as political indoctrination.The report draws on a range of primary and secondary sources, including first-hand accounts from inside Tibet that describe how China's education policies affect the lived experience of Tibetans on the ground, statements from Tibetans in exile who are survivors of China's colonial boarding school system, data collected from official sources, and scholars in Tibet, China and abroad."China claims to be educating Tibetan children, but the world knows what it looks like when children are pushed into residential schools run by a state that wants to wipe out their culture," said Tethong."Beijing must be pressed to respect the right of all Tibetan children to receive a high-quality mother-tongue education without being separated from their families, before any more irreparable harm is done," added Tethong.( With inputs from ANI )Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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