Tibetan Government Leaders Condemn China’s Ethnic Unity & Progress Promotion Law

 Leaders of the Tibetan Government in Exile today strongly condemned China’s newly passed Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law, saying it will further intensify repression in Tibet and other regions. The law, signed by Chinese President Xi Jinping on 12th of this month, calls for ethnic unity and will come into effect on 1st of July this year.

 

The Tibetan leaders described the move as a longstanding repression that accelerates the erasure of Tibetan, Uyghur, and other minority cultures. The Tibetan leadership in exile has called on the international community to closely monitor the implementation of the law and raise concerns over its potential impact on human rights and cultural freedoms.

 

China’s Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law is widely seen as a legal mechanism to assimilate China’s 55 officially recognised ethnic minorities into the dominant Han Chinese population, raising concerns over potential human rights violations.