1. See Chapter on The Status of New Tibetan Refugees

2. The PRC signed the CRC on 29 August 1990 and ratified it on 2 March 1992

3. Art. 29.1 (b), CRC

4. Art. 26, UDHR

5. Art. 13.1, ICESCR

6. Art. 13.2 (a) (b), ICESCR

7. Art. 46, PRC Constitution

8. Human Rights in China, Minority Education in China, New York, April 2001

9. The Information Office of the State Council, Tibet’s March Toward Modernisation, Beijing,

10. TCHRD Interview, 4/310, 26 June 2000

12. TCHRD Interview 14, 2 May 2001

12. TCHRD Interview, 3/301, 301 May 2000

13. Reuters, Daniel Nelson, 29 November 2001

14. TCHRD Interview, 4/329, 5 August 2000

15. TCHRD Interview, 4/324, 26 September 2000

16. TCHRD Interview, 4/367, 29 December 2000

17. TCHRD Interview, 4/316, 17 July 2000

18. TCHRD Human Rights Update, February 2001

19. International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet, A Generation in Peril, pp. 69-72

20. A Generation in Peril, p. 69

21. Art. 4, ICERD

22. Art. 1, ICERD

23. Minority Education in China

24. PRC Constitution, Article 4

25. TCHRD Interview, 4/335, 17 October 2000

26. TCHRD Interview, 4/326, 3 October 2000

27. TIN, News Update, 20 February 2001

28. A Generation in Peril, p.72

29. Testimony to TCHRD of a western tourist who visited Tibet in April 2001

30. Minority Education in China

31. TIN, News Update, 27 November 2001

32. TCHRD Interview 4/357, 26 November 2000

33. ibid

34. TCHRD Interview 4/342, 6 November 2000

35. TCHRD Interview 4/308, 21 June 2000

36. TCHRD Interview 4/335, 17 October 2000

37. TCHRD Human Rights Update, January 2001, p. 6, www.tchrd.org/hrupdate/2001/200101.html