Lhadon ལྷ་སྒྲོན།

Tibetan independence activist. Believer in the power of nonviolence to bring down dictators. Amala to four sweet boys. Views are my own.

[Lhadon ལྷ་སྒྲོན། @lhadon]

Our report uncovers China's massive colonial boarding school system in Tibet. 800,000 - 900,000 Tibetan children ages 6-18 are separated frm their parents & families in schools designed to strip them of their identity. This # doesn't include 4 & 5 yr-olds in boarding pre-schools.

[Tibet Action Institute @tibetaction]

Separated from their families, hidden from the world: China's vast system of colonial boarding schools inside Tibet. Read the new report by @tibetaction at https://t.co/9PDgDkcxxo

[Tibet Action Institute @tibetaction]

📢READ our new report:

“'When They Came to Take Our Children': China’s Colonial Boarding Schools and the Future of Tibet”

👉https://t.co/EUc21VOMp4

👉Press release: https://t.co/KeXYmVGI05

A short thread 🧵on what’s new in our latest report & why it matters:

[Dorjee Tseten @Dotseten]

As young as four years old — Tibetan children are being separated from families and placed in China’s colonial boarding schools in occupied Tibet.
Thank you @vishalarora_in for shedding light on this. @tibetaction @SFTHQ @CTA_TibetdotNet @lhadon @newsreel_asia

[Lhadon ལྷ་སྒྲོན། @lhadon]

I love that the Chief Minister is wearing an @SFTHQ button. Respect. 🙏🏽

[TibetanReview @TibetanReview]

CM @PemaKhanduBJP expressed serious concern at #China’s refusal to enter into binding international water treaties and its selective sharing of hydrological data. He emphasized the urgent need for cooperative governance of shared water resources in Asia.
https://t.co/To3lIUGuV3

[Tibet Action Institute @tibetaction]

Lobsang Gyatso Sither, Director of Technology at Tibet Action Institute, discusses DeepSeek and the implications of Chinese-made AI on information integrity, censorship, and disinformation in the English language.

https://t.co/eJZ05mdAL6

[Tibet Action Institute @tibetaction]

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You'll get the latest updates on Tibet, our research exposing China's oppressive policies and digital security tips to stay safe online. We’re tackling China’s repression head-on in 2025 with bold strategies and resistance tactics.

[Maya Wang 王松蓮 @wang_maya]

Thanks @BethanyAllenEbr for this important piece but I want to explain why China-related groups have become reliant on USG funding. Many people do not appreciate just *how hard* it is to raise funds for China-related human rights & democracy work.
https://t.co/ZrM7479Gz9

[Sunai @sunaibkk]

Do the right thing! PM Paetongtarn @ingshin should assure world leaders at #Davos2025 that #Thailand won’t send back 48 #Uyghurs, currently held in immigration detention, to face persecution in #China. End transnational repression. Prove that Thailand merits a seat at UN Human Rights Council. @HRW

[Campaign For Uyghurs @CUyghurs]

As Uyghur refugees in Thailand face the imminent threat of deportation, CFU Executive Director @RushanAbbas has been on the ground, advocating for their cause. Together with colleagues from the World Uyghur Congress, Rushan met with Thai Parliament Member @nolkannavee, civil society leaders Chalida Tajaroensuk of the People’s Empowerment Foundation, and Phil Robertson of the Asia Human Rights Labour Advocates, engaged with the media, and held important discussions with diplomats and other stakeholders to prevent the Thai government from deporting 48 Uyghur refugees to China.

We call on all allies to raise their voices and urge Thai authorities to uphold their obligations and immediately halt the deportation of these men.

[Lhadon ལྷ་སྒྲོན། @lhadon]

Mr. Varennes,

You were the first to speak out in defense of Tibetan children and sound the global alarm on this issue together with your UN colleagues in 2022.

Thank you for continuing to take action for them. 🙏🏽

https://t.co/bxP9b3Qy93

[Former UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues @fernanddev]

Every year, more than a million #Tibetan & #Uyghur #children in #China are separated from families, most sent to residential schools. Why? To forcibly assimilate & make them 'good' Chinese citizens. I am happy to contribute to this excellent piece in New York Times.

[Former UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues @fernanddev]

Plus d'un million d'enfants tibétains et ouïghours en Chine sont séparés de leurs familles, lplacés dans des écoles résidentielles. L'objectif : leur assimilation forcé pour en faire de 'bons' citoyens. Je suis heureux d'avoir pu contribuer à ce superbe texte du New York Times

[Former UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues @fernanddev]

Every year, more than a million #Tibetan & #Uyghur #children in #China are separated from families, most sent to residential schools. Why? To forcibly assimilate & make them 'good' Chinese citizens. I am happy to contribute to this excellent piece in New York Times.

[MilkTeaAlliance Galleries @MTA_Museum]

ང་ཚོའི་ཉེ་ལམ་གྱི་ལས་རིམ་ཁ་ཤས།
#MilkTeaAlliance དང་མནའ་མཐུན་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ལ་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་བྱ་དགོས།
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More: https://t.co/10NEM0dWsZ
Original tweet by @lhadon
Link: https://t.co/Hk438EyOlh

[萨格尔扎西 SakarTashi @P9Wb1kMpj484jEW]

重磅推荐： 网友：这是《纽约时报》历史上最具全面深刻的调查报道之一！
网友：藏人很不容易上一次纽约时报，没想到是以这种方式！
我说：《纽约时报》复活了， 起码在藏人心中彻底复活了！
纽约时报赤裸裸地揭露了共匪在西藏实施的种族灭绝政策：殖民寄宿制学校里的阴险且悲惨内幕。期待中文版问世！

[夏巢川 Rei Xia @karasu_ga_warau]

今天（1月13日），紐約時報國際版在��頁頭條報導了 #西藏寄宿學校 問題，以及藏人兒童的文化和身分認同如何被紅色洗腦教育取代。中國當局的文化殖民問題應當得到這種程度的重視，尤其因為這是在摧殘兒童的身心健康基礎上。

[Lhadon ལྷ་སྒྲོན། @lhadon]

"However, from my experience, I am worried because it is inevitable that some people who are showing concern for this incident will face difficulties due to false political accusations against them."

@tibetaction @TibetCouncil @TheTibetNetwork @SFTHQ

[Lhadon ལྷ་སྒྲོན། @lhadon]

For Ms Sangdrol, there has been some comfort in seeing her fellow Tibetans band together during a...crisis.

"Although it is heartbreaking to see the natural disaster ..., I am very happy to see that Tibetans inside Tibet still maintain their strong unity as before."

[Lhadon ལྷ་སྒྲོན། @lhadon]

Sangdrol was 13 when 1st imprisoned:

"Usually everybody's not open, but this time, everybody is less scared because it's a natural disaster."

"Sometimes I feel I can't see that much �� but this time I can feel how they are strong & united w each other.

https://t.co/lEUGDIKd24

[Lhadon ལྷ་སྒྲོན། @lhadon]

The earthquake in Tibet, and absolutely everything that happens there, must be seen within this context:

Tibetans have no freedom.

Zero civil or political liberties.

No right to do - even in a natural disaster - what normal people do:

Help.

Post videos.

Share info.

[Freedom House @freedomhouse]

Tibet is one of the least free places in the world, with a #FreedomInTheWorld score of 0/100.

All residents are denied their fundamental rights, though Tibetan cultural and religious identity is especially repressed by CCP authorities.

Learn more: https://t.co/8ToH4RmUd0

[Lhadon ལྷ་སྒྲོན། @lhadon]

"A video posted by "Bodong Kangzhuo" on WeChat said 2 nuns from Zongbu Monastery died in the earthquake. Now this video cannot be opened. Originally a reporter for "China Tibet Net", her video about this Monastery has been edited and the part about the dead nuns is missing."

[འོད་ཟེར།唯色Woeser💙💛 🦋 @degewa]

前天我在微信视频号看到一个叫“博东康卓”发的视频，提到过宗布寺的两个尼姑在地震中遇难，受伤尼姑送往医院救治，其余尼姑现在住进了帐篷，但现在这个视频打不开了。刚才看到“中国西藏网”发的相关视频，她原来是“中国西藏网”的记者。她关于宗布寺的视频已经做了剪辑，没有了遇难尼姑那段。

[Lhadon ལྷ་སྒྲོན། @lhadon]

“Chinese state media has been focusing on propaganda activities such as having Tibetan children wave Chinese flags. They are forcing affected residents to express their gratitude to the Chinese govt, and...display...Xi Jinping’s photos in the temporary shelters provided.”

[Radio Free Asia @RadioFreeAsia]

Chinese authorities in Tibet have forbidden aid workers and Buddhist monks from entering areas of the region struck by deadly earthquakes last week, three residents of the region and a Tibetan in exile told Radio Free Asia.

#China #Tibet

https://t.co/YubAzqJ5Tv