”Tibetan and Uighur minority language schools have mostly been eliminated since 2017 and replaced by Mandarin Chinese instruction, in tandem with a Beijing crackdown on dissent and mass detention of protesters and opponents,” the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported yesterday.
In its report titled ‘Language rules for Inner Mongolia another step to erode ethnic groups in China’, SCMP quoted a Mongolian dissident as saying Beijing is implementing policies that could result in the “total destruction of language, culture and identity of all ethnic minorities” within China. Continue reading “Look to China’s example shutting down its own vernacular schools”
Helen Ang 