Private lessons to improve the students’ skills in Tibetan have now been forbidden in favor of vacation homework in Mandarin and the study of Xi Jinping’s thought.
Cultural Genocide
Words Used for Cultural Genocide: How “Northern Frontier” Is Replacing “Inner Mongolia”
They are starting with adjectives. “Mongolian culture” becomes mandatorily “Northern Frontier culture.”
The Sorrow of Uyghur Exile: A New Anthology
An anthology of poetry by Aziz Isa Elkun is published in Turkish. It is much more than a literary event: it calls fellow Turkic peoples to support the victims of a genocide.
How China’s Boarding Schools in Xinjiang (East Turkistan) Are Erasing a People’s Identity: A Uyghur View
The Chinese regime is perpetrating the cultural genocide of a generation by weaponizing education. The state of the matter after ten years of persecution.
Golog, Qinghai: After 30 Years, a Prestigious Tibetan School Is Liquidated
The Jigme Gyaltsen Nationalities Vocational High School was praised even by Communist authorities. But that it preserved Tibetan culture could not be tolerated.
How “Two-Stringed Lute” Became “Red Flag”: China Changed Names of Hundreds of Uyghur Villages
A new report documents a subtle tool of cultural genocide: erasing the village names referring to Uyghur culture and religion.
Documenting the Horror. 4. Time for Revising the “Convention on Genocide”?
A re-calibration of its language, in the full spirit of Raphael Lemkin, can meet recent developments in the heinous practice of genocides.
Documenting the Horror. 3. Cultural Genocides
The planned, organized, and systematic suppression of distinctive cultures aims at annihilating human groups for what makes them what they are. One perpetrator is the People’s Republic of China.
Documenting the Horror. 2. Of Genocides and Culture
The UN “Convention on Genocide” excludes cultural destruction as a marker for genocide, to avoid a vague use of the term “culture.” But culture is not a fuzzy concept. It identifies peoples.
Unprecedented Tibetan Protest Against Hydropower Station in Sichuan
The construction of Gangtuo Power Plant compels thousands of Tibetans to relocate. It is about money but also contributes to destroying Tibetan culture and religion.