China is implementing a systematic campaign to erase Tibetan culture, language, and identity by targeting children on the Tibetan Plateau. While international attention focuses on China’s mass internment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, a quieter, more permanent campaign is unfolding in Tibet. Over one million Tibetan children, almost four out of every five, have been forcibly placed into state-run, Mandarin-language boarding schools, often taken from families at ages four or five.
These institutions, presented as instruments of development, function as tools of forced assimilation, severing children from their language, faith, and cultural inheritance. This geopolitical project aims to control the future by displacing family and monastery, teaching children that Tibetan traditions are backward and their identity subordinate to a homogenized Chinese nation, a classic colonial maneuver.
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