NEW YORK -- The Chinese government is reported to have ramped up its efforts to forcefully relocate rural villagers and nomadic herders in Tibet since 2016, in what a US-based human rights watchdog describes as an erosion of the Tibetan culture and way of life.
Rural Tibetans -- sometimes individual households and sometimes entire villages -- have been coerced into moving hundreds of kilometers away from their homes by government programs into centralized locations, according a report published on Wednesday by Human Rights Watch.
