Tibetan identity
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2 Tibetan students arrested at school for opposing only Chinese instruction
According to RFA, In the province of Qinghai in northwestern China, two Tibetan students have been held accused of not using the Chinese language as the only teaching medium in Tibetan schools. Gyuldrak and Yangrik had challenged a new Chinese education policy that would require only Chinese-language instruction at middle school. The two 19-year-old inhabitants,…
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China Wants to Destroy Core Tibetan Identity: Former Dalai Lama Envoy
The former envoy to the Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama has told the German parliament that China wants to destroy the core of Tibetan identity. The former envoy has told at a hearing in the German Bundestag in Berlin on May 8, 2019 according to the report by International Campaign for Tibet.
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Tibetans Can Surrender Indian Passports Without Penalty: Official
Tibetans can surrender Indian passports without penalty said an official according to a recent report in the Hindustan Times. Since the high court ruling allowing the Tibetans born in India between January 26, 1950 and July 1, 1987 be treated as Indian citizens by birth and permitted for seeking Indian passports.