Chinese labor camps “accompanied by enforced indoctrination, intrusive surveillance, and harsh punishments.”
China is forcing Tibet’s native population into military-style labor camps, a new report shows.
Over half a million ethnic Tibetans were “trained” as part of Beijing’s forced labor program between January and July 2020 — almost 15 percent of the region’s population, the report released on Tuesday by the D.C.-based Jamestown Foundation revealed.
In these camps, Tibetans of all ages are subjected to “militarized training regimen” conducted by the “People’s Armed Police drill sergeants,” the report said. The “camps are accompanied by enforced indoctrination, intrusive surveillance, and harsh punishments for those who fail to meet labor transfer quotas,” Australian newspaper the Sydney Morning Heraldreported citing the report.
Since Communist China annexed the Buddhist kingdom of Tibet in 1950, it has carried out a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing and religious suppression. Beijing is running a similar movement in the neighboring Muslim-majority Xinjiang province. The regime cynically describes these forced labor camps as centers for “re-education” and “free vocational training.”
Reutersreported the finding on Tibet’s mass labor camps:
China is pushing growing numbers of Tibetan rural laborers off the land and into recently built military-style training centers where they are turned into factory workers, mirroring a program in the western Xinjiang region that rights groups have branded coercive labor.
This article was sourced from LegalInsurrection
