Commentary: In Tibet, persecution permeates the classroom
by Sophie Richardson, Los Angeles Times
May 04, 2020
3 minutes
A year ago February, authorities in the highly restrictive Tibet Autonomous Region of China picked up Tsering Dorje, who lived in a village near Mt. Everest. They held him for a month in what they told him was a "reeducation facility," where he says he was interrogated and beaten.
Dorje's "crime"? A phone call with his brother, who lives outside China, in which they discussed the importance of Tibetan language instruction for their children. The local police who had intercepted the call told
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