[lg policy] China: Teachers Sign Petition in Support of Tibetan Language

[Harold Schiffman]

China: Teachers Sign Petition in Support of Tibetan Language
By EDWARD WONG
Published: October 25, 2010


      Tibetans in China Protest Proposed Curbs on Their Language
(October 23, 2010)

Hundreds of Tibetan schoolteachers signed a petition recently that was
sent to the government of Qinghai Province in western China, demanding
that schools preserve the use of Tibetan as a main language of
instruction. Parts of the petition, which was dated Oct. 15, were put
up on a Tibetan blog, www.khabdha.com, on Monday and show that the
protests over language policy led by thousands of Tibetan students
last week in Qinghai had widespread teacher support. The petition
demands that officials follow the Chinese Constitution, including
Article Four: “All ethnic groups have the freedom to use and develop
their own spoken and written languages and to preserve or reform their
own folkways and customs.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/26/world/asia/26briefs-TIBET.html?_r=1

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