Tibetan independence activist. Believer in the power of nonviolence to bring down dictators. Amala to four sweet boys. Views are my own.
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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.
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 tinyurl.com/colonialboarding…
Lhadon ལྷ་སྒྲོན། retweeted
Hey @CNN , it’s the Nepal–Tibet border, not the “Nepal–China border.” Tibet and Nepal share centuries of history, culture, trade and people-to-people ties. Please don’t erase Tibet from the geography
@CNNPR @cnnbrk @CNNEE @cnni @cnnturk @CNNNepal1 @cnnasiapr
Lhadon ལྷ་སྒྲོན། retweeted
Upstream engineering, downstream disaster: The hidden factor in Nepal’s tragedy. My op-ed on how China’s upstream projects may have turned a natural disaster into a cascading catastrophe.
According to Beijing's own statements over the past decade, it has expanded embankments, border facilities, highways and other civil works in the upstream river corridor, with significant construction concentrated along riverbanks. Its diversion weirs, intake structures, embankments and other hydrological modifications created localized bottlenecks in the Himalayan gorges.
Realignment of riverbanks, concrete embankments and heavy border civil engineering (such as facilities around Gyirong Port) narrowed natural channels. Upstream hydraulic structures, including intake works, altered natural flow dynamics, creating secondary choke points that burst under pressure, exacerbating the sudden torrent downstream. asia.nikkei.com/opinion/nepa…
Lhadon ལྷ་སྒྲོན། retweeted
A Nepali journalists’ collective has raised serious questions about the August 26 flash floods in Rasuwa, alleging that extensive Chinese construction and hill-cutting along the Tibet–Nepal border may have contributed to the disaster.
The claims remain unverified, but the warning cannot be ignored. Beijing’s unchecked infrastructure expansion, environmental destruction and exploitation of Tibet’s fragile Himalayan ecosystem could have consequences far beyond Tibet’s borders.
When rivers are dammed, mountains carved up and fragile ecosystems disrupted, downstream communities pay the price.
#Tibet #Nepal #Rasuwa #Kyirong #FreeTibet #StandWithTibet #SaveTibet #TibetanEnvironment #China #CCP #EnvironmentalJustice #Himalayas #ClimateCrisis #StopDamming
This post is like oxygen for me right now. Do you think blasting on a massive scale in the immediate vicinity of the glacier collapse might be linked to this horrific disaster? China's endless blasting, mining, dam building in occupied Tibet, & even inside Nepal, is the key.
Nepal is paying a devastating price, and serious questions remain over what China knew and when it warned its neighbour.
Beijing’s relentless construction, damming and exploitation of Tibet’s fragile Himalayan ecosystem and rivers cannot be separated from the growing risks downstream.
The CCP demands trust while hiding information, silencing scrutiny and putting its interests first. History has taught us: never trust Beijing.
#Tibet #Nepal #CCP #China #FreeTibet #SaveTibet #NepalFloods #TibetFloods #EnvironmentalJustice #TibetanRivers #StopCCP #StandWithTibet #StandWithNepal #HumanRights #ClimateJustice
Lhadon ལྷ་སྒྲོན། retweeted
📢READ our new report:
“'When They Came to Take Our Children': China’s Colonial Boarding Schools and the Future of Tibet”
👉tibetaction.net/when-they-ca…
👉Press release: tibetaction.net/boarding-sch…
A short thread 🧵on what’s new in our latest report & why it matters:
Lhadon ལྷ་སྒྲོན། retweeted
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
New report reveals China’s use of coercive boarding schools to assimilate Tibetan children as young as four, raising global human rights concerns.
newsreel.asia/articles/china…
I love that the Chief Minister is wearing an @SFTHQ button. Respect. 🙏🏽
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.
tibetanreview.net/arunachal-…
Lhadon ལྷ་སྒྲོན། retweeted
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.
youtube.com/watch?v=iMm0Al0O…
Lhadon ལྷ་སྒྲོན། retweeted
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Lhadon ལྷ་སྒྲོན། retweeted
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.
aspistrategist.org.au/with-u…
Lhadon ལྷ་སྒྲོན། retweeted
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
Lhadon ལྷ་སྒྲོན། retweeted
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.
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. 🙏🏽
ohchr.org/en/press-releases/…
Lhadon ལྷ་སྒྲོན། retweeted
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
Lhadon ལྷ་སྒྲོན། retweeted
ང་ཚོའི་ཉེ་ལམ་གྱི་ལས་རིམ་ཁ་ཤས།
#MilkTeaAlliance དང་མནའ་མཐུན་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ལ་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་བྱ་དགོས།
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Original tweet by @lhadon
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Lhadon ལྷ་སྒྲོན། retweeted
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！
Lhadon ལྷ་སྒྲོན། retweeted
今天（1月13日），紐約時報國際版在首頁頭條報導了 #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。
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."
"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
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.
abc.net.au/news/2025-01-15/e…
