Tibetan Students Face Forced Assimilation

Students in Tibet as young as preschool are being forced to leave their families and attend boarding schools instituted by the government. 

This is a result of many local school closures throughout the Tibet region and enforced punishments if parents do not send their children to school. The Chinese government conducted these closures over the past twelve years. 

Closures aren’t restricted to the Tibet region, but the practice seems to be much more widespread in Tibetan areas. Many Tibetan activists view this as the government’s attempt to assimilate Tibetans into the majority Chinese culture. This encapsulates all aspects of culture including language, history, and religion. 

China Communist Party (CCP) Leader XI Jinping has implemented many policies and actions to reshape societies and clamp down on religion to prevent unrest in areas with sizable ethnic populations. Jinping has pursued his goal of a unified China by imprisoning those who protest his methods to reshape religious practices and put the CCP before Christ.