The Central Tibetan Administration based in Dharamshala, India, said that these efforts indicate the extent of the regime's surveillance state, describing DNA sampling as a long-term tactic to control the Tibetan population.

"The [Chinese regime's] escalation of the illicit collection of Tibetan's DNA samples for the purpose of 'crime detection' originates from its desperate attempts to establish legitimacy to rule Tibet, and therefore such efforts are solely meant to secure their stability," Tenzin Lekshay, spokesperson of Central Tibetan Administration, also called the Tibetan government-in-exile, told The Epoch Times.

Human Rights Watch, a New York-based non profit said in a Sept. 5 report that the Chinese regime is systematically collecting blood samples for DNA collection across the regime–even from children at kindergartens.

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