China is aggressively working towards making Tibet into another Xinjiang by building a military-style training centers which will play host to Tibetan rural labourers.
According to President Xi Jingping, this reform has been created to “effectively eliminate lazy people and guide the masses to create a happy life with their hardworking hands”.
As per reports, Beijing has started the mass transfer of rural labourers from Tibet to other parts of China. The forced migrants of Tibet will end up working as low wage workers in textile, manufacturing, construction and agriculture. However, this is seen as a coercive labor training and transfer system.
Resently protests rocked China’s Inner Mongolia Region as Communist Party of China regime brought in a new policy that the ethnic Mongolians fear will wipe out their culture.
As per new development, the Communist regime has unilaterally decided to impose Mandarin over Mongolian in the schools by mandating the teaching of main subjects like politics, history, and language and literature in Mandarin instead of Mongolian.
Adrian Zenz, an independent Tibet and Xinjiang researcher says, “This is now, in my opinion, the strongest, most clear and targeted attack on traditional Tibetan livelihoods that we have seen almost since the Cultural Revolution”. This detailed report was released this week by the Jamestown Foundation, a Washington, Washington D.C.-based institute that focuses on policy issues of strategic importance to the US “It’s a coercive lifestyle change from nomadism and farming to wage labour.”
However, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly denied the involvement of forced labour, and said “What these people with ulterior motives are calling ‘forced labour’ simply does not exist. We hope the international community will distinguish right from wrong, respect facts, and not be fooled by lies,”.
Xinjiang province is home to ethinic Turkic Uighurs Muslims and China has litrally converted this place into a concentration camp. It is believed that over 1 million Uighur Muslims are being held in a so called education camps. Now China has again implimented the same policy in Tibet in pursuit of what Chinese authorities call “stability maintenance.” aimed at quelling dissent, unrest or separatism.
The spin put by the Communist authority is that, “In order to cope with the increasing downward economic pressure on the employment income of rural workers, we will now increase the intensity of precision skills training and carry out the organised and large-scale transfer of employment across provinces, regions and cities,”. This is the statement released by Tibet’s Human Resources and Social Security Department in July.
China is calling this labour transfer programs to other parts of China are voluntary, but human rights groups and researchers say this move is far from voluntary.
“These recent announcements dramatically and dangerously expand these programs, including ‘thought training’ with the government’s coordination, and represent a dangerous escalation,” said Matteo Mecacci, president of US-based advocacy group, the International Campaign for Tibet.