... 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 up to his relative’s home. Three men, one apparently  ....

           ... 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  ....

           ... 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  ....