As large-scale, region-wide, nonviolent civil disobedience gathers momentum across Southern Mongolia in protest of the Chinese Central Government’s plan to replace Mongolian with Chinese as the only language of instruction, Mongolian students started moving to the forefront of the massive school boycott sweeping the region.

Hundreds of students in school uniform gathered in front of the Tongliao Mongolian Middle School, one of the largest Mongolian schools in Southern Mongolia, chanting in tears, “Our mother tongue is Mongolian. Until death, we are Mongolian!”

On the evening of August 30, a Mongolian student from Sheebert Mongolian Middle School of Horchin Left Wing Middle Banner reportedly jumped from the building to his death. Video footage shows an ambulance hurriedly departing the protest scene, leaving angry protesters behind.

At other schools, students broke through police barricades and left school grounds to join their protesting parents in roaring cheers of “This is who we are: Mongolians!”

Government officials, educational bureau workers, and even some police of Mongolian ethnicity are refusing to execute orders. Reports from Bairin Right Banner confirmed that almost half of the police force of the Banner are Mongolians who are refusing to arrest protestors or take part in any official propaganda activities.

Artists, bands, and sport clubs across Southern Mongolia are sending out joint statements to protest the new language policy that was set to take effect September 1, 2020. Colorful signatures with red finger prints and their names and pictures have gone viral via social media.

Epic storytellers using traditional instruments started calling on all Mongolians to oppose this new policy and save their language and the Mongolian nation as a whole. A storyteller sang in a short video, “Our mother tongue is Mongolian since tens of thousands of years ago; how can we Mongolians accept Chinese as the mother tongue?” and condemned the authorities use of the label “sedition” to crack down on the protest.

As overseas Southern Mongolians gather in front of Chinese embassies and consulates in the United States, European countries, Japan, and elsewhere, citizens of the independent country of Mongolia are planning to stage a large-scale protest in front of the Chinese Embassy in Ulaanbaatar in solidarity with their Mongolian brothers and sisters in Southern Mongolia.

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