China Deploys Military Veterans in Kindergartens and Schools in Tibet

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China Deploys Military Veterans in Kindergartens and Schools in Tibet

China has launched a new pilot programme deploying Chinese military veterans in state-run boarding schools to indoctrinate Tibetan children as young as four with military training and political education. The pilot programme, which began with 13 veterans stationed at seven schools in Nagchu, represents Beijing's most direct militarization yet of Tibetan education, targeting children at their most impressionable age in a region already subjected to intense surveillance, language restrictions and forced cultural transformation.