Tibet: A forgotten Country? by Katia Buffetrille, Ethnologist and Tibetologist, Researcher at the Ephe. This article examines how Tibet has faded from international attention while China tightens control over the region through cultural suppression, forced assimilation, environmental concerns and border militarization.
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China’s (CECC) 2025 report documents widespread and systematic human rights abuses by the Chinese government in Tibet, highlighting mass expulsions of monks from Larung Gar, the closure of Tibetan schools, arbitrary arrests and detention of rights advocates—including the death of language rights activist Gonpo Namgyal from torture in custody—and pervasive surveillance that stifles religious, cultural, and linguistic freedoms.
The report “The Tibet Project” by Dr. Gerald Roche (2016) is about reframing how Tibet is understood—not as a single, fixed, or uniform place acted upon by China, but as a dynamic, ongoing project shaped by deep internal diversity.
The report, When they Came To Take Our Children, by Tibet Action Institute, exposes how the Chinese government is using a vast system of colonial boarding schools and preschools in Tibet to forcibly assimilate Tibetan children, undermining their language, culture, religion, and identity. Drawing on rare firsthand testimonies, it documents widespread abuse, early family separation, suppression of Tibetan education and religious practice, and severe psychological harm—arguing that this system violates both Chinese and international law and threatens the survival of Tibetans as a distinct people.