This refers to a press report of August 2, 2008 in the online version
of Times of India citing a report in the Nepal’s Maoists’ mouthpiece
Janadisha Daily accusing His Holiness the Dalai Lama of brainwashing
Nepalese children.

The Maoists, according to the report, accused His Holiness the
Dalai Lama of brainwashing children as young as seven years after
luring them away from Nepal in the name of educating them.

The Central Tibetan Administration has never ever supported or
encouraged such kind of en masse recruitment of Nepalese children in
its schools and institutions, nor do we have the resources and
facilities to maintain them given the large number of young Tibetans
who escape out of Tibet every year to pursue their education in exile
which they are deprived of in their own homeland.

In fact, there are reports about some disgruntled elements in
the exile Tibetan community, who in the name of His Holiness the Dalai
Lama and the Central Tibetan Administration are carrying out this mass
recruitment of young Nepalese children, apparently to discredit and
defame His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Central Tibetan
Administration.