Whereas for more than 2,000 years the people of Tibet have maintained a distinct religious, cultural, linguistic, and historical identity; Whereas 2024 marks the 65th anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising Day of 1959, ensued by the flight from Tibet to India of the spiritual and temporal leader of the Tibetan people, Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, who was forced to flee due to fear for his safety as the Chinese Communist Party’s People’s Liberation Army prepared to commence an assault on his residence; Whereas, upon his arrival in India, the Dalai Lama declared that he could do more to champion the rights, including the right of self-determination, of the Tibetan people in exile than by remaining inside territory occupied by the Armed Forces of the People’s Republic of China (PRC); Whereas in the intervening years the PRC has persistently sought to erase the religious, cultural, linguistic, and historical identity of the Tibetan people; Whereas this attempt at erasure includes separating up to 1,000,000 Tibetan children from their families and forcing them to enroll in schools that teach principally in Mandarin, seeking to undermine the transmission of Tibetan language and alienate Tibetan youth from their culture, which if successful would contribute to the erosion of the identity of the entire people; Whereas, as a result of PRC policies, at least 1,800,000 Tibetan nomads have been forced into concentrated settlements without compensation nor guarantees of income or employment, contributing to their vulnerability to coercive labor programs; Whereas the Government of the PRC routinely interferes with religious practices of the Tibetan people thus violating the right to freedom of religion which is vital to Tibetan spiritual education and expression; Whereas Freedom House’s Freedom of the World 2024 report scores Tibet as 0 out of 100, the worst rating in at least 8 years