Free Tibet’s Classrooms: End Patriotic Drills, Restore Native Language Learning

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As the future of Tibet’s cultural identity is increasingly being shaped not in monasteries or family homes, but inside classrooms where political indoctrination is steadily replacing native language education, Ashu Maan* points out that international human rights standards offer a clear framework for evaluating such development and calls for China’s Patriotic Education Law, passed on Oct 24, 2023, its 2025 Preschool Education Law extending this requirement down to kindergarten level, and the Law on Ethnic Unity and Progress set to come into force on Jul 1 this year, be subjected to these standards for their legitimacy.

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