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Tibetans Against Teaching in Chinese

April 24, 2020;

Tibetans in China’s western Sichuan province are appealing against plans to drop Tibetan from schools as it will have an “adverse impact on relationships between parents and their children and goes against regional ethnic laws”. A group of Tibetan nomads from the Ngaba area have petitioned the National People’s Congress in an effort to reverse a government plan to switch school tuition to Mandarin.

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