China Steals Language and Home Life From Tibetan Kids as Young as 4
China has for at least two decades directed children in Tibet to state-run boarding schools at ever-younger ages, trying to gut Tibetan culture and blunt generations of opposition to Communist Party rule.
It didn't work as well as Chinese leaders hoped.
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