| For decades, China has aimed to attack & obliterate Tibetan culture. |
Dharamsala, Aug.14 (DPnet).– The Chinese government is now targeting the children of Tibet, which is particularly heartbreaking because of the Chinese Communist Party's systematic and forcible separation of Tibetan children from their families and forcing them into boarding schools that alienate them from their culture.
Tibetan Children are separated from their families for months at a time, starting as young as age 4. Communist Party indoctrination in the schools is designed to complete the severing of connections to any aspect of being Tibetan.
They start in the morning telling them that Tibet has always been part of the Chinese motherland and Tibetans at large welcomed the People's Liberation Army invasion so that they may now live in peace. The fact is that independent scholars agree Tibet was a fully independent state for more than 2000 years until China invaded in 1950.
In the afternoon they receive Mandarin language instruction: speaking, reading, and writing. Use of Tibetan is strictly prohibited. They are not allowed even to speak Tibetan among themselves. They must speak Mandarin for long periods to the point that children find it difficult to communicate later with their parents and grandparents during the brief periods they are allowed to return home.
Over a million Tibetan children are being compelled to assimilate in state-run schools through this form of indoctrination. At the age of four, the children are brainwashed with propaganda meant to convert them into Communist party members and thrust them into an unfamiliar environment where they are compelled to speak Mandarin, ultimately eradicating the thousands of years-old Tibetan culture.