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To gather and distribute
information concerning Southern (Inner) Mongolian
human rights situation and general human rights issues;
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To promote and protect ethnic
Mongolians’ all kind of rights such as basic human rights,
indigenous rights, minority rights, civil rights, and
political rights in Southern Mongolia;
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To encourage human rights and
democracy grassroots movements in Southern Mongolia;
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To promote human rights and
democracy education in Southern Mongolia;
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To improve the international
community’s understanding of deteriorating human rights
situations, worsening ethnic, cultural and environmental
problems in Southern Mongolia;
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Ultimately, to establish a
democratic political system in Southern Mongolia.
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Japan:
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... A.B.
is from Inner Mongolia, a region of northern China
where ethnic minority Mongols who mainly speak
Mongolian comprise 17 percent of the population. A.B.
came to Japan for work in 2018 and said he joined
peaceful protests in Japan against the Chinese
government’s policy of replacing Mongolian with
Mandarin Chinese at schools. He said. In response to
the language issue, I felt that if I didn’t say
anything myself, we [eventually] wouldn’t be able to
do anything, so I started expressing my opinions
against the Chinese government, against Beijing…. At
first, I didn’t disclose my name and face, I wore a
mask. My [relatives] were worried about me. I wasn’t
sure about my future, I didn’t have capacity to
think about it…. I eventually found a job [in
Japan], and that’s when I went public with my face
and name. Since going public, A.B. said that
officials of the local public security bureau –
China’s police – in Inner Mongolia have visited his
relatives, who are not politically active. Two CCTV
videos both timestamped on the same date in 2022,
provided by A.B. and verified by Human Rights Watch
to have been filmed in Inner Mongolia, show a car
with sirens marked “public security bureau” driving
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Southern Mongolian representatives spoke
at a briefing of UN member states during UNGA |
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... What
is happening in Southern Mongolia today is another
form of genocide, cultural genocide. Starting last
September, Government of China has completely banned
Mongolian language in all schools across the region.
Anything with Mongolian characteristics are removed
from buildings, streets and parks. Those who protest
these policies are criminalized and imprisoned. As
you all know, China is a signatory to the UN
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. But
the Government of China publicly claimed that China
does not have indigenous people and indigenous
issues, because “indigenous issues are a product of
Western Colonization only”, claiming that “there is
no Western Colonization in China today. Therefore
there is no indigenous issues”, according to the
Chinese Government. This is how China issues free
pass to herself and continues to carry out all forms
of human rights violations, not only in Southern
Mongolia, but also in other occupied nations
including Tibet and East Turkistan. I urge the
international community especially democratic
nations to hold China accountable for its horrendous
crimes and atrocities perpetrated in the occupied
nations of Southern Mongolia, Tibet and East
Turkistan in front of the eyes of the international ....
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'Northern
frontier culture': How China is erasing 'Mongolia' from
Mongolian culture |
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... Chinese
authorities have launched a campaign to change the term that
people use to refer to Mongolian culture and to the cultural
and historical heritage of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous
Region (IMAR) in a move aimed at eroding Mongolian identity
and sense of homeland. The Chinese Communist Party’s new
official term, bei jiang wenhua, meaning ‘northern frontier
culture’, eliminates reference to Mongolians, one of China’s
56 officially recognised ethnic groups. Since July 2023,
Inner Mongolia state media articles, official websites,
party statements, party-organised children’s activities, and
official
social media posts have widely promoted the phrase. The
party’s regional propaganda office has also founded an
academic journal dedicated to ‘northern frontier culture’,
and Inner Mongolia’s premier state-run academic institute
has opened a ‘northern frontier’ research centre. The
adoption of the term appears to be part of the CCP’s growing
campaign to weaken Mongolian ethnic identity and instead
push a Han-centric national identity through the
elimination of Mongolian language education and other
measures. Under Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the party has
increasingly equated the culture and language of the
dominant Han ethnic group, which comprises ....
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Herders tried for protesting mining, sick and elderly
handcuffed and shackled on hospital bed |
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... Accused of “being evil forces”
and “provoking troubles,” 11
Mongolian herders from the Urad
Front Banner in the western
Southern Mongolia Bayannuur
League have been tried recently
for defending their land from
Chinese mining companies.
According to the herders’
families, the protracted trial
has so far taken 93 days as of
last Friday and is expected to
conclude this week. The herders
have been detained multiple
times since their initial
arrests in August 2020, with
total detainments ranging from
37 days to 18 months without
legal due process. Sick and
elderly herders have either been
taken into custody in
wheelchairs or handcuffed and
shackled to hospital beds.
Led by 78-year old Mr.
Jiranhoyor, the group of
Mongolian herders includes Ms.
Sumyaa, Mr. Sumbur, Mr. Daichin,
Mr. Munkhsumbur, Mr. Nars, Mr.
Naranbat, Mr. Hurwaa, Ms. Wei
Meili, Mr. Hong Wuyi and Mr.
Aldart. They have defended their
grazing lands from illegal
occupation and environmental
destruction by multiple Chinese
mining companies, including Huo
Tuo Mine LLC, for more than a
decade.
In August 2020, the Bayannuur
League Public Security Bureau
dispatched more than 100 fully
armed riot police and arrested
11 herders.
The Bayannuur League ....
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Enghebatu Togochog's testimony before the Court of the Citizens
of the World |
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... My
name is Enghebatu Togochog. I am the Director of the
Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC),
a New York based human rights organization dedicated
to promoting and protecting human rights of the
Mongolian people in Southern Mongolia, widely known
as “Inner Mongolia” of the People’s Republic of
China. Here in my presentation, I would like to talk
about the PRC’s systematic repression of the rights
of the Southern Mongolians, ongoing cultural
genocide as well as escalating transnational
repression of Southern Mongolian exiles and the
citizens of the independent country of Mongolia.
Officially incorporated into the People’s Republic
of China in 1949, Southern Mongolia, is currently
home to a population of six million Mongolians that
is twice as large as that of the independent country
of Mongolia in the north. Publicly touted as the
“model autonomy” by the Chinese government, Southern
Mongolia has always been the de facto testing ground
of China’s all forms of ethnic policies including
genocide, ethnic cleansing, political purge,
economic exploitation, cultural eradication,
linguistic assimilation, social marginalization,
resource extraction and environmental
destruction. As early as the 1940s, the Chinese
Communist .... |
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