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Tibetan Schooling

January 21, 2017;

Dolkar Kyi, a regional committee member of the Chinese People’s Consultative Congress (CPCC) and professor at Sichuan Teachers University has written to the CPCC to say that 2,000 Tibetan children who live in Chengdu, the capital of southwest China’s Sichuan province, are being denied their constitutional right to an education in their own language. Tibetans have been campaigning for Tibetan language education for their children for years.

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