India, May 31 -- The Tibet Action Institute (TAI) has released a report where it accused Tibetan children are face abuse, neglect, indoctrination, and identity erasure in the Chinese government's network of colonial boarding schools and preschools in Tibet.

"'When They Came to Take Our Children': China's Colonial Boarding Schools and the Future of Tibet" draws on rare, firsthand accounts to show how the Chinese government is using Tibetan children as a means to aggressively and forcibly assimilate Tibetans, threatening their survival as a distinct people.

"Students suffer physical and mental abuse, and in some cases, even death. Parents report being unable to easily access their children while they are in the schools," the organisation ...