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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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"I am guilty by Chinese laws, but I am not
guilty before my people" |
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Today is an ordinary day. Yet it
is a day that will go down in
history of our struggle. Even
though I was charged guilty by
Chinese laws, I am not guilty
before my people. The struggle
that we have taken up for our
cause is not an act of guilt
before our people. I have
received numerous phone calls
and welcoming messages from my
fellow herders upon my release
and found out that many more
from our Bayan-undur communities
wanted to come here today but
were not able to make it due to
the severe drought and shrinking
pasture that made them unable to
leave their livestock
unattended; Due to the
involuntary migration to distant
pastures in other banners [a
banner is an administrative unit
equivalent to a county] for
temporary relief; Due to the
policies that outlaw and
criminalize the herders of local
communities if their livestock
trespasses the “protect areas;”
And also due to the
ever-worsening poverty that made
some local herders leave their
land for other means of living.
With a heartfelt understanding of the enormous
hardships our fellow herders are facing today, I
firmly believe that each and
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To
the UNPO General Assembly, Reaffirming
the Southern Mongolians’ right to
self-determination, and right to
control, own and manage their ancestral
lands and territories and other natural
resources; Recalling China’s vote in
support of the United Nations
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples (UNDRIP) and other relevant
international human rights conventions;
Expressing concerns on China’s hostile
and discriminatory policies toward the
Mongolian pastoralist way of life,
culture, language, tradition and
national identity; Condemning China’s
state-sponsored violence against
Southern Mongolian herders, activists
and their family members, as well as the
total destruction of Southern Mongolia
grassland ecosystem through
state-sponsored extractive industries
and intensive farming; Noting that:
Thousands of Chinese mining companies
including state-run Chang Qing, Shen Hua,
Da Tang and private miners occupied
local herders’ grazing lands, dumped the
hazardous industrial and chemical wastes
on the grassland without any treatments;
Once beautiful Mongolian grasslands are
turned
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SMHRIC Statement at UNPO-TGP Conference
at Scottish Parliament |
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Distinguished members of the Scottish Parliament, members of UNPO, ladies and
gentlemen, Good afternoon! My name is Enghebatu Togochog. I am the Director of
the Southern Mongolian Human Rights
Information Center (SMHRIC), a New
York based advocacy group dedicated
to promoting and protecting the
rights of the Mongolian people in
the Chinese occupied Southern
Mongolia, or known as “Inner
Mongolia”.
As the People’s Republic of China
was established in 1949, Southern
Mongolia was officially annexed to
China and became China’s first
so-called “Autonomous Region”. Since
then, the Chinese Communist
Government’s policies of
ethnic-cleansings, political
witch-hunts, large scale population
transfers, and forced cultural
assimilation have devastated the
social and cultural fabric of
Southern Mongolia. In addition, it
has led to a near total destruction
of the natural environment in
Southern Mongolia. As a result of
waves of Chinese migration, today, the Mongolians
constitute only 18% of the total population on their
own land; the natural grasslands where the
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Herders pepper-sprayed and beaten, nine
arrested for defending land and water |
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On June 18, 2017, more than a
hundred Mongolian herders from Duruu-nuur Gachaa, Darhan-uul
Sum of eastern Southern
Mongolia’s Heshigten Banner
gathered near the Dalai-nuur
Lake shore to defend their
grazing land and sacred water.
Chinese fishermen and riot
police attacked the protesters
with pepper spray and batons. At
least nine Mongolian herders
were arrested and dragged away
by police after being severely
beaten.
“Riot police are beating our
people and spraying an unknown
substance at our eyes,” a
herdswoman at the scene said in
a short footage. “Our eyes are
burning and having difficulty
seeing.”
“Many are beaten and several
arrested and taken away,” the
protestor added.
According to another video clip
obtained by the Southern
Mongolian Human Rights
Information Center (SMHRIC), a
herdswoman was beaten on the
ground and taken away by the
riot police shortly afterward.
Another herdsman was beaten down
on the ground by nearly a dozen
riot police and handcuffed
before being carried away.
Herders have been appealing to
the local government against the
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