Tibetan Communist Cadres asked to Recall their Children Studying in Exile

Under the three themes, the renewed "patriotic education" campaign aims to 'educate' the masses about 'opposing splittism', 'protecting stability' and 'backing development', by holding meetings, inviting experts to give speeches, teaching and discussing the contents of the 'patriotic education' campaign, holding denunciation session of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and screening propaganda shows.

The "Tibet Autonomous Region" ("TAR") Communist Party's Discipline Inspection Commission (Ch: Jie Wei) and "TAR" Government Discipline Committee (Ch: Jian cha ting) have issued Monday two months' ultimatum to the Tibetan Communist Party members and government employees to recall their children studying in exile schools, a rights group based in Dharamshala reported.

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said that the new regulation was aimed to target Tibetan party members and government employees whose children are studying in the exiled educational institutions run by the "Dalai Clique".

"Those party members and government employees who conceal information on or fail to recall their children studying in exile educational institutions run by the Dalai Clique within the stipulated deadline shall be expelled from the Party and fired from their government job," noted the regulation.

Terming it as "political regulation", the regulation categorically mentioned that the Party members and government employees are not allowed to send their children to educational institutions in exile and doing so will goes against the Party rules and government policies and will be punished accordingly.

The Tibetans were asked to voluntarily surrender and explain before the concerned government department or the Party for leniency without penalty, after recalling their children.

The new regulations said "the Dalai Clique has over the years cited free scholarship, boarding and food facilities to the young children in order to entice them to leave Tibet for schools and monasteries in exile. The young who are the future seeds were targeted by the Dalai clique by enticing with facilities in the exile schools and monasteries in order to challenge the party and the government."

In 1994 a policy was instituted demanding that parents recall their children from India lest they be demoted or expelled from their jobs, and their children lose their rights to residence permits if they did not return to Tibet within a specified time. And many parents recalled their children studying in exile schools and many ended up terminating their education.

Following the recent series of protests across the Tibetan plateau, at the beginning of April, the Chinese authorities launched a renewed "Patriotic education" campaign covering almost every section of Tibetan communities with more rigor and intensity.

The campaign not only target the monastic institutions but also government employees, security forces, farmers, nomads, private entrepreneur, educational institutions and Party cadres. The ethnic Tibetan Party cadres and government employees in particular come under scanner with test of individual loyalty to the party, one's stand on the "separatist" forces, family background and way of thinking were thoroughly judged.

On 21 April, Dorjee Tsering, Lhasa City Mayor, said the "Patriotic education" campaign will be a standard litmus test for the party cadres and will be set as a standard barometer for testing one's loyalty to the Party.

Expressing concern over the new regulation, the rights group said the Chinese authorities should immediately withdraw this new regulation and respect the ethnic Tibetan government employees and party members rights.

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