WASHINGTON — The United States (US) said on Tuesday (Aug 22) it was imposing visa sanctions on Chinese officials pursuing 'forced assimilation' of children in Tibet, where United Nations (UN) experts say one million children have been separated from their families.
WASHINGTON — The United States said on Tuesday it was imposing visa sanctions on Chinese officials pursuing"forced assimilation" of children in Tibet, where United Nations experts say one million children have been separated from their families.
"We urge PRC authorities to end the coercion of Tibetan children into government-run boarding schools and to cease repressive assimilation policies, both in Tibet and throughout other parts of the PRC," he said, referring to the People's Republic of China. The United States separately imposed sanctions in December on two top-ranking Chinese officials, Wu Yingjie and Zhang Hongbo, over what Washington said were widespread human rights violations in Tibet.China called the US-backed allegations"smears" that"seriously undermine China-US relations".
But Mr Blinken in his statement cited a finding given in February by three UN experts who said that around one million Tibetan children have been sent into boarding schools, often by force. The International Campaign for Tibet, a pressure group close to the region's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, applauded Blinken's action against the"unconscionable" separation of children.
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