Dharamshala, Oct. 20 -- The Dharamshala-based Tibetan government-in-exile, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), on Monday claimed that Chinese authorities had closed at least three privately run Tibetan schools in Golog (Chinese: Guoluo) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture over a period of a few weeks, according to information relayed through reliable sources in the region. "The sources said the government is closing private schools across Tibetan areas to accelerate national assimilation, moving Tibetan children into state-run institutions where they can more easily be subjected to political "re-education." Heavy surveillance of phone and internet communications makes information from the region extremely difficult to obtain," the CTA report published on its website said. The CTA said the closures constituted a serious violation of the Tibetan people's rights to education, language and cultural identity. HTC...