Tibetan kids face abuse, indoctrination in Chinese preschools

{ FORCED ASSIMILATION } THE REPORT SAID SUCH MEASURES CAUSE EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL HARM

- Rezaul H Laskar

Chinese authorities have forced up to 100,000 Tibetan children aged four to six years into a network of colonial boarding preschools, where they face abuse, neglect, indoctrination and identity erasure, according to a new report by a Tibetan think tank.

The report by the Tibet Action Institute, drawing on rare firsthand accounts, shows how the Chinese government is using Tibetan children as a “means to aggressively and forcibly assimilate Tibetans, threatening their survival as a distinct people”, the think tank said on Friday as the report's Hindi version was released in New Delhi as part of events marking the 90th birthday of the Dalai Lama.