MPs urge Canada to sanction officials responsible for Chinese-run residential schools in Tibet

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Open this photo in gallery: Tibetan students pass a poster showing Chinese President Xi Jinping during a government organized visit for journalists to Nagqu High School, an off-site schooling program for students from high altitude areas, in Lhasa, Tibet in June, 2021Kevin Frayer/Getty Images A parliamentary committee is calling on Ottawa to sanction officials responsible for China-run residential boarding schools in Tibet and to issue a statement calling for an end to the system, which it says mirrors Canada’s historical treatment of Indigenous children. Nine-hundred-thousand Tibetan children in China have been separated from families and forcibly required to attend classes...