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“We are very worried because, In recent years, The Tibetan children's boarding school seems to act as a large -scale mandatory program, destined to instill the majority culture have to Tibetans, which goes against international human rights standards”, The experts declared, appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council but do not speak on behalf of the UN name.
In a statement, They expressed their concern for information according to which the number of internships inside and outside Tibet and the number of Tibetan children who live in them increased considerably.
In those interns, The children of the Tibetan minority are forced to follow a program of “Compulsory teaching” In Mandarin Chinese (polonghua). She further , Government schools in that language do not offer exhaustive language studies, The history or culture of the Tibetan minority, indicates the statement.
“Consequently, Tibetan children lose their ease in their mother tongue and their ability to communicate easily with their parents and grandparents in the Tibetan language, what contributes to its assimilation and erosion of your identity”, The experts regretted.
In other Chinese regions there are also hospitalized but their proportion in areas populated by the Tibetan minority is much greater, And that percentage has increased in recent years, According to the rapporteurs.
Nationally, More than 20% students are admitted, But according to the information transmitted to the rapporteurs, The vast majority of Tibetan children reside in a boarding school, that is to say, almost one million children in total.
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