China forces 500,000 Tibetans into labour camps

By News on the Net -- Sydney Morning Herald —— Bio and Archives September 22, 2020

Comments | Print This | Subscribe | Email Us

China is pushing hundreds of thousands of Tibetans into forced labour camps, mirroring a program in the western Xinjiang region, as the International Olympic Committee is urged to strip Beijing of the Winter Olympics. New evidence suggests the Chinese government now has a large-scale mandatory "vocational training" program in Tibet, pushing more than 500,000 rural labourers into recently built military-style training centres in the first seven months of this year alone.-- More...