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China to punish Tibetan kids for studying in India
by Sanjay Jha | September 24, 2008 at 02:17 am | 65 views | 1 comment | 2 recommendations
The Chinese government has continued its repressive regime against Tibetans. India and Nepal are the two countries where maximum Tibetans have taken exile. After the communist government took over in Nepal, it has been reiterating one China policy and virtually have abandoned hundreds of thousands Tibetans living there. Nepal had given shelter to Tibetan exile but new regime has changed its stance considering Tibet as integral part of China. Now new regime has started crack down on Tibetan exiles. The new government of Nepal has pledged to hand over all Tibetan refugees who do not possess valid travel documents or the identity cards issued by Nepal to the UN's refugee care agency and make them leave Nepal.
The crackdown comes after Tibetans began staging protests against the Chinese government since March and kept the demonstrations up, embarrassing Beijing especially on the eve of the Olympic Games.
Thousands of Tibetan children and their families face stiff punishment at the hands of the Chinese government for enrolling in schools in India run by the Tibetan government in exile headed by their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, a rights body said.
The Washington-headquartered International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) has expressed its misgivings as the ultimatum issued by the Communist Party of China authorities to the Tibetan Party and government workers expired last week.
In July, Communist Party authorities in the Tibet Autonomous Region had issued a directive stating that Tibetan children must confess if they have been to schools in India and whether they believed anything they had been taught there, the ICT said in a statement issued late on Monday.
Similar, though less stringent measures were imposed in the mid-1990s. The measures, issued by the Tibet Autonomous Region Party Committee Discipline Department, state that children who return from schools in exile and parents who fail to bring children back to Tibet could face unspecified "disciplinary action".
Every year, hundreds of children are smuggled out of Tibet to Dharamsala town in north India, the home of the Dalai Lama, to receive the religious education that they are denied by communist China in their own homeland.
September 24, 2008 at 02:17 am by Sanjay Jha, 65 views, 1 comment
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at 08:15 on September 24th, 2008
Sanjay Jha, I like this story. It's good stuff.