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Record of Chinese Atrocities in Tibet
Record of Chinese Atrocities in Tibet
1.2 million Tibetans died as a direct result of Chinese atrocities.
• Over 6000 monasteries and institutes of learning have been destroyed.
• Precious Tibetan artifacts were vandalized and sold in Hong Kong markets.
• Over 6000 Tibetan religious and historical pieces of literary work has been destroyed.
• Tibetans in Tibet are second class citizens without basic human rights, such as Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Religion, Right to Education, etc.
• Tibetan women are subjected to forced abortion and sterilization.
• Tibetan Children are denied their right to education.
• 70% of Tibetans living in Tibet now are illiterate.
• Arbitrary arrests, torture, intimidation and imprisonment without trial are the order of the day for Tibetans in their own country.
• Tibet has been divided into different parts and incorporated with Chinese provinces, thereby removing the existing Tibetan identity.
• Thousands of Tibetans are still in prisons in China. Tibet’s natural resources and fragile ecology are irreversibly destroyed.
• 6 Million Tibetans have been outnumbered by 7.5 million Chinese inducted into Tibet causing demographic disadvantage to Tibetans in their own country.
Sources:
Amnesty International/Human Rights Watch/Freedom House/Human Rights First/United Nations.