Commentary
The exiled leader of Tibet, Penpa Tsering, said in a hearing on March 28 that his people face a “slow death.”
Group death through cultural assimilation, enforced by torture and execution, is more than murder or a crime against humanity.
It is genocide, and co-chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-N.J.), said so in the hearing on Tuesday.
Since 2016, China’s regime has redoubled efforts to separate Tibetan children from their parents, forcing them into boarding schools. There, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) subjects them to Mandarin-language teaching, mandatory DNA tests, and arguably, what has been called brainwashing as early as 1991….