[Buddha-l] New Tibetan protests

[JKirkpatrick]

-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of Dan Lusthaus
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 8:22 AM

The news from there never seems to get any better:

Tibetans Protest China's Plan to Curb Language By EDWARD WONG
Published: October 22, 2010

BEIJING - Thousands of Tibetan students in western China have
protested since Tuesday against proposals to curb or eliminate
the use of the Tibetan language in local schools, according to
reports from Tibet advocacy groups and photographs and video of
the protests circulating on the Internet.

The rest at
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/world/asia/23china.html

Dan 
________________________

This is the most effective way to obliterate a culture--as the
USA eventually recognised after forcing native american kids into
government schools and punishing them for using their own
languages even to converse with one another. In past two decades
Indians on various resdrvations are trying to renovate their
languages before the last living speakers are no more .

Joanna