The government of USA announced on Tuesday the tightening of restrictions for the issuance of visa to officials of China who carry out the policy of “forced assimilation” of children in the troubled region of Tibetwhere, according to experts from the UNmore of one million minors They were separated from their families.
“These coercive policies seek to eliminate the distinctive linguistic, cultural and religious traditions of the Tibet among the younger generations of Tibetans,” said US Secretary of State Anthony Blinkenin a statement informing of the visa restriction for these officials.
“We urge the Chinese authorities to end the coercion of Tibetan children in government-run boarding schools and to cease repressive assimilation policies, both in Tibet as in other parts” of the country, he added in the statement collected by the news agency AFP.
A Chinese “genocide” in Tibet, according to the US
Since 2021, USA accuses China to carry out a genocide in another autonomous region in northwest China, Xinjiang, through a network of forced labor camps.
According to a spokesman for Department of Statethe new restrictions will apply to officials involved in policies in Tibetwhether they are active or not.
The spokesman avoided giving details citing confidentiality laws on visa records. Last December, USA sanctioned two high-ranking Chinese officials, Wu Yingjie and Zhang Hongbohence Washington described as widespread violations of human rights in Tibet.
In the statement, blinken cited a figure provided in February by three experts from the UNwho estimate that around a million Tibetan children were forcibly transferred to boarding schools.
The program appears to be aimed at coercively integrating Tibetans into the culture of the ethnic group. they havemajority in Chinawith compulsory education in Mandarin and without references to the culture of the region of the Himalayas Buddhist majority.
Another report published this year by experts from the UN it claims that hundreds of thousands of Tibetans have also been forced to abandon traditional rural life for low-skilled “vocational training”.
He Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the report “completely unfounded” and said the region of Tibet “enjoys social stability, economic development, ethnic unity, religious harmony, and that people live and work in peace.”
China manage Tibet with an iron fist since the 1950s, when it annexed that autonomous land in the context of the Korean war which was released at that time.
The spiritual leader of Tibethe Dalai Lamawho lives in exile in India since 1959, it has generated worldwide awareness of the fate of the region. Many Tibetans accuse China of repressive measures and torture.
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Source: Ambito
