China orders Tibetans 'reeducated' about Dalai Lama | LA Times (08.04.08) - The Diigo Meta page

• 09 Apr 08
  

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  Buddhist monks, civil servants and public school students have been instructed to attend special classes in the virtues of Chinese rule and the evils of their exiled leader, the Dalai Lama. In these classes, the Tibetans read and recite from texts that denounce the Dalai Lama as a "political reactionary" and a "betrayer of the motherland."

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  • Besides the monks, Tibetan civil servants, party members and schoolchildren have attended special reeducation sessions, according to the Tibet Daily. At an elementary school, children viewed photographs of stores damaged in March 14 riots in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, and sang patriotic songs.
  • the rhetoric harks back to the reeducation and self-criticism campaigns of the 1960s and 1970s
  • Monks who refuse to speak out against the Dalai Lama in patriotic education sessions are usually expelled from the monastery and sometimes are arrested. Last month, two monks were reported by Tibetan activists to have committed suicide because of the pressure.
  • Many of the recent demonstrations have been triggered by Chinese authorities' attempts to confiscate banned photographs of the man Tibetans refer to simply as "his holiness."

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