The new group emerged just two months after Tibetan Chemi Lhamo faced an organized campaign of opposition from thousands of Chinese students at the University of Toronto, where she was elected president of the Scarborough campus’s students union.
Toronto police are investigating the deluge of abusive texts she received, some of which threatened violence against Lhamo.
“This is definitely another propaganda tool by the Chinese state,” she said in an interview about the new association. “I see it as a threat to me personally. I will not know about my Tibetan history if these entities gain power and start to influence our academic institutions and other cultural spaces.”
Representatives of the organization — also referred to on Chinese-language websites as the Tibetan Canadian Friendship Association — could not be reached for comment.
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