[Tibetan Snow Lion Flag. Photo credit: Pixabay]

Human rights experts in the United Nations discussed the human rights violation in Tibet at the UN Human Rights Council's 53rd session, on July 7th in Geneva,Swiss.

"[d]ozens of independent UN human rights experts on Friday urged the Chinese Government to “cooperate fully” with the UN human rights system over abuse allegations, and grant them “unhindered access – particularly to prisons and detention centres.” (United Nations News)

The United Nations is now involved with the human rights violations in Tibet, and the whole world is increasingly monitoring the treatment of the Chinese government towards the Tibetan people. 

Under the corrupt Reting regime, Tibet went through a period of political upheaval that opened the gates for China to easily defeat the country. 

Tibet has been ruled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since 1951, and since then has been recognized by most countries as a subject country of China.

There was a large uprising in 1959 where Tibetans aimed to topple the Chinese government. 

However, Tibetans failed in their goal, and the failed uprising resulted in the death of over 87,000 Tibetan citizens and resulted in the exile of the 14th Dalai Lama, a spiritual ruler of Tibet, to India. 

From 1966 to 1976, the Cultural Revolution occurred, which completely destroyed the religious emblems of Tibet, and forced religious and erudite individuals into harsh government-programmed reeducation processes. 

Since the 1990s, the Chinese Communist Party(CCP) has been dedicated to changing the political and cultural landscape of Tibet, getting rid of any signs of the Dalai Lama from both public and private areas. 

In addition, the CCP controls the textbooks used by students, educating them with Chinese ideology in the Tibetan language. 

In addition, there are allegations of grievous human rights violations directed against Tibetans rebelling against the CCP.  

The human rights violations include, but are not limited to: 

Assimilation policies with the aim of eliminating the identity of minorities and the Tibetan people, China’s boarding school system in Tibet, a policy that forcibly sent approximately 1 million Tibetan, separated from their families, to boarding schools where they are educated under a CCP-prescribed doctrine.

In addition, the vocational training which China sends Tibetans to have been described as a form of labour exploitation. 

“[t]he first one, delivered by ICT Germany’s Kai Müller on June 28 during the interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, drew attention to labour exploitation in Tibet, which “may amount to forced labour, trafficking for purposes of forced labour, marginalization of the Tibetan language, religion, way of life and forced political indoctrination of prisoners violating the freedoms of thought, conscience, opinion and expression,” Müller said.” (ICT)

Furthermore, a policy of compulsory expulsion and relocation of millions of Tibetan nomads and farmers from their land to other areas has been implemented under the excuse of relieving the penury: at least 1.8 million nomads have been expelled.

According to the European Union delegate, “[t]he EU continues to urge China to abide by its obligations … to respect, protect and fulfil human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, including Uyghurs, Tibetans and persons belonging to ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities across China.”

Currently, the European Union members are engaged in convincing China to create development and poverty reduction policies, which would revive Tibetan culture.