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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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SMHRIC member Altantsetseg Borjigin speaks
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Sain baitsagaanuu! My name is Altanhua Borjigin. I
am a Mongolian from Southern Mongolia. On behalf of
my colleagues from the Southern Mongolian Human
Rights Information Center and the Southern Mongolian
exile community, I am honored to be here today to
stand with our Tibetan brothers and sisters to mark
the Tibetan National Uprising Day. Like Tibet,
Southern Mongolia has also been occupied and
colonized by the Chinese since over the past 70 plus
years.
During these 7 decades, we Southern Mongolians have
experienced the darkest chapter of our history.
National autonomy has never been realized; political
rights were long gone; most basic human rights and
fundamental freedom have been completely denied; our
tradition and way of life have been systematically
wiped out; our natural environment is destroyed and
our mineral wealth is taken away. Today, what the
Government of China is carrying out in Southern
Mongolia is a full-scale cultural genocide,
targeting our last defense of national identity
which is language. Starting last September,
Mongolian language education is officially banned in
Southern Mongolia. All Mongolian subjects in all
Mongolian schools are taught in Chinese exclusively.
This genocidal campaign ....
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Expert panel on China's colonial boarding
schools: Ripping children from their roots |
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... According to Chinese official statistics, in 2021,
there were 2,087 boarding schools including elementary and
middle schools across Southern Mongolia’s 76 banners and
counties. The total number of residential students in these
boarding schools is 1.07 million. The proportion of
residential school students in Mongolian concentrated areas
is higher than that in Chinese concentrated areas. Some
areas such as Shiliingol League and Hingaan Leagues, the
proportion of residential students as high as 70-80%
Boarding school system in Southern Mongolia is an integral
part of China’s overall colonial policy of wiping out the
language, culture and identity of the entire Southern
Mongolian population as a whole. Chinese occupation of
Southern Mongolia is a typical settler colonialism which
inherently is genocidal in nature. As early as the 1950s,
the Chinese Government kicked off a political witch-hunt
against the Southern Mongolians in the name of
“Anti-National Rightist Movement” to purge the Mongolian
elites. Tens of thousands of Mongolians were persecuted; In
the 1960s through 1970s, the Chinese committed their first
massive formal genocide in Southern Mongolia. Entire
Southern Mongolian population was targeted by this genocide
campaign that was ....
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SMHRIC
statement to CECC
hearing "The PRC's Universal Periodic Review and the Real State
of Human Rights in China" |
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In the
last ditch of effort to erase the Mongolian language
from Southern Mongolia, in September 2023, the
government of China officially ordered ALL Mongolian
schools, from kindergartens to colleges, to teach
ALL subjects in Chinese exclusively. This concludes
China’s three-year long language erasure campaign to
remove Mongolian language completely from the entire
educational system in Southern Mongolia. A trainee
who managed to leave China and arrived in the United
States recently told us that he and all of his
Mongolian coworkers were put to this training for 2
months. During the training, they must denounce
their “narrow nationalism” and “nationalistic
feeling”, and embrace the “Chinese Nationality
Common Identity”. They must provide all of their
social contacts and the details of social media
activities to the authorities. Toward to the end of
the training, they were forced to confess their
supposed “mistakes” including their past gatherings
where they wore Mongolian traditional clothes and
sung Mongolian songs. They were warned that these
are the mistakes that are against with the spirit of
“Chinese nationality common identity”. They had to
answer multiple questionnaires designed to assess
their “ideological improvement”. One of the .... |
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Imprisoned Mongolian Christian in 'critical condition' after
starved, forced to drink toilet water |
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In a case that
has raised significant human rights concerns, a 28-year-old
Mongolian Christian imprisoned on trumped-up charges is in
critical condition after facing severe persecution in a
high-security prison in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia. According to
U.S.-based persecution watchdog
ChinaAid, Alamus, also known as Alamusha, originally
from the Xilingol League of Inner Mongolia, was a student at
the Shanghai Theater Academy. During a winter break in 2013,
he attended a classmate reunion in his hometown when an
altercation broke out at the event. Although Alamusha did
not participate in the fight, he was charged as the main
offender and sentenced to 15 years for intentional injury.
Alamusha's plight came to light following a
video released by his aunt, which has been circulating
on Chinese social media. The video alleges that Alamusha has
been tortured in solitary confinement for nearly two months,
with his life in imminent danger, because he refused to
plead guilty to his “crimes.” She claims that he was beaten
by police officer Nie Yonggang and a gang member, resulting
in a perforated eardrum. However, following his complaint to
the prison authorities, Alamusha was reportedly placed in
solitary confinement, shackled, and deprived ....
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