China is having a hard time denying the truth on human rights violations.
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China has denied a UN Special Rapporteur’s claim that it has separated one million Tibetan children from their families and forcibly assimilated them into the religiously, culturally and linguistically dominant Han Chinese culture. placed in boarding schools. Reported autocracy (VAA).
The Han Chinese or Han people are an East Asian ethnic group native to China.
China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning said during a routine press briefing last week: “This is definitely not true and clearly another allegation to mislead the public about China and tarnish China’s image.” As is commonly seen around the world, there are boarding schools in Chinese provinces and regions to meet the needs of local students.”
“These schools provide accommodation, catering and other boarding services. They are not closed facilities and yet run less military style,” he said.
China has come under heavy attack from UN experts for its alleged move to forcibly assimilate Tibetan identity into Han culture. According to the VA, China is facing a hard time denying the truth on human rights violations of the Uighurs, a Muslim ethnic group living in the northwestern region of Xinjiang.
A United Nations Human Rights Council (UN) press statement released in Geneva on 6 February revealed that the Chinese government is running a series of residential schools where approximately one million Tibetan children are being held for forced extermination. To drive out their Tibetan cultural identity and brainwash them into Chinese Han culture.
In their joint statement, the three experts Fernand de Varennes, Farida Shaheed and Alexandra Xanthaky said, “We are deeply troubled that in recent years the residential school system for Tibetan children has functioned as a mandatory large-scale program aimed at assimilating Tibetans into the Tibetan majority Han culture, contrary to international human rights standards.”
In response, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said: “In the case of China’s Tibet, it is a high-altitude region and highly dispersed population in many areas. Children from pastoral families, in particular, have to walk long distances to school.” Distance has to be covered. If schools were to be built everywhere students lived, it would be very difficult to ensure adequate teachers and quality of teaching in each school.”
But UN experts, according to the VAA, said there is more to it than meets the eye: the learning materials and environment for Tibetan children are built around Han culture; Lessons are conducted in Mandarin Chinese (Putonghua) only, with reference to Tibetan history, religion, and “of course not the exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.”
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