ANI, 10 May, 2022

In an international webinar on “China UsingEducation as the Last Tool of Colonizing Tibetan Minds”, Tibet experts haveexpressed concerns over the Chinese authorities trying to ‘deTibetanize’ theTibetan people, urging the world community and world governments to takeserious note regarding the matter.

According to the experts, the Chinesegovernment has launched a campaign through a chain of residential schools whereTibetans are being brainwashed through colonial and communist tools, reportedthe Tibet Press.

As per a research by Karma Tenzin, aResearch Fellow at the Tibet Policy Institute (TPI) of Dharamshala post theformer CCP chairman, Mao Zedong’s destruction of Tibet’s and China’s educationsystem during the ‘Cultural Revolution, a new education system was started inthe later years.

However, in the new education system,China’s main motto was to eliminate the Tibetan language and to impose theChinese Mandarin as the medium of education and instruction for Tibetanstudents, reported the Tibet Press.

The youngsters were being taught biased andwrong history lessons where Tibetans were portrayed as inferior to the Chinesemasters. It acted as a sheer tool to colonize the Tibetan minds.

In another report by EleanorByrne-Rosengren, the co-founder of ‘Tibet Solidarity’, it was revealed thatover 86,000 Tibetan children were coerced to join the Chinese boarding schools.They were forcefully separated from their families while the school curriculumwas designed specially to abolish the cultural identity of Tibetans and adoptthe Chinese communist identity.

Further, John Jones, of ‘Free Tibet’ in theUK condemned the present Chinese education system in the Chinese-run TibetBoarding Schools, calling it a ‘symbol of disease of an occupying force’,reported the Tibet Press.

The Tibetan youths are forbidden to escapefrom these schools and even barred from entering the local temple orparticipating in any Tibetan festival. According to Jones, these schools areimparting education to ‘reprogram’ the Children’s minds.

However, the forcible education of Tibetanchildren through the Chinese-led Boarding Schools in Tibet shows ChinesePresident Xi Jinping’s failure to win the endorsement of Tibetan people totheir colonial rule over Tibet, reported the Tibet Press.

“After having failed to win the hearts oftheir Tibetan subject even after seven decades of colonial rule, the Chinesemasters of Tibet cannot cope with the fact that such Tibetan youths who havenever seen or heard of Dalai Lama or of a free Tibet in their lifetime, are inthe forefront of demonstrations and self-immolations against the Chinese ruleover Tibet,” said Jones. (ANI)