See the sort of punishments that were common for people who tried to organize the serfs in any way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lungshar
Agree that a regime being "better than" one that existed in the past doesn't justify repression, but also what is "foreign" and what is not is something that is socially constructed and shaped by the passage of time, not objective fact.
For instance, I would not have preferred for the South in the US to be able to secede because "repression by a local is better than foreign Northerners."
And about old Tibet, I recommend "Seven Years in Tibet", real story of a Nazi who fled a british war prisoner camp in india and then spend 7 years in Tibet, also as a teacher for the young Dalai Lama, until the chinese came. I read and recommend the book, but they also made a Hollywood movie with Brad Pitt out of it (which I have not watched yet, it is supposed to be good, but likely not as deep).
And I am not directly involved, so I do not propose any concrete solution, due to lack of detail knowledge.
But I do see some solutions. Local autonomy. Federalism. Different districts with different systems. End of absolute rule of the CCP - no more interfering in cultural and religious topics. Allow the exil Tibetans and the Dalai Lama to come back, give them back the monastaries. Let them work something out, with the Han chinese who live there today and in many cases, were born there.
The monasteries including their lands? That's absurd.
They owned over half of all of the arable land in Tibet and had legally bound serfs working that land for the benefit of the ecclesiastical class.
Your request is more akin to saying that Europe should return the land belonging to feudal lords (ie. most land).
People want to make some odd simile to the holocaust when obviously assimilation is not at all close in magnitude to that horror.
Even in "monolingual" countries this is true to some extent. Most of the people likely to be in here right now are are in countries clustered along one side of the spectrum, that we are a minority and an outlier.
Many other countries are multilingual and to some degree multicultural. Few are as homogenous as East Asian countries.
> Wouldn't it be hard to integrate into the business community if you didn't speak the official language of business in a given country?
Uh, so offer free Chinese language schools and economic opportunities. It doesn't require kidnapping them and putting them in concentration camps.
Also, you do realize the whole concentration camp thing is mostly propaganda to apply pressure to a geopolitical rival, right? The US has been doing it for the entirety of its existence.
The US has been doing what its entire existence? Propaganda, camps, both? And so what? Doesn't make it right for either country. The US and China are both evil in their own ways.
Lots of conflicting perspectives on this topic indeed.
The only source they have in that article that disagrees that amputation and gouging of the eyes was a routine punishment was a literal Nazi.
The overwhelming weight of evidence, even in that wiki article, is towards Tibet having a feudal society with routine amputation/gouging as punishment.
https://infogalactic.com/info/Lungshar - had their eyes gouged out by the state