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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
Welcomes US Senate's New Bipartisan Bill Calling Attention to
Human Rights Violations in Southern Mongolia |
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“As Beijing continues
to repress the rights
and cultures of ethnic
minorities, America must
be unwavering in its
support of those
fighting for their
fundamental freedoms,”
Senator Merkley
said in a press release
today. “The
Southern Mongolian Human
Rights Policy Act
sends an unequivocal
message: the United
States will not stand
for the Chinese
government’s efforts to
erase Mongolian
language, culture, and
identity. Our bill makes
clear that the status
quo for human rights—in
Southern Mongolia and
across China—is
unacceptable.”“The Chinese
Communist Party not only
has nefarious designs on
America’s global
interests and our
critical industries, it
has also worked to
undermine
internationally
recognized human rights
across the globe,
including in Southern
Mongolia,”
Senator Sullivan stated
in the press release.
“The plight of the Southern Mongolian people, who were
promised autonomy, is similar to the plight of other ethnic
and religious minorities in China who are forced into
“reeducation” camps, denied religious rights and the right
to speak in their own language, forcibly removed from their
homes, and
forced to engage in slave labor. In Congress, we have
appropriately focused on the mistreatment of of other ethnic
groups in China ....
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Herders stage protest
demanding compensation |
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... Mongolian herders from eastern Southern (Inner)
Mongolia’s Heshigten Banner staged a protest on November 3,
2024, demanding compensation from the local government.
According to the protestors, the government of Heshigten
Banner has continually withheld a large sum of compensation
supposedly already paid to the local Mongolian herders for
the Chinese authorities’ livestock grazing ban imposed on
the pastoralist communities. “We are herders from Heshigten
Banner of Chifeng Municipality. We are gathering here in
front of the Banner government, demanding the payment of
grazing land and livestock compensation,” one protesting
herder stated in a short video posted on the Chinese social
media platform Douyin. Apparently, the Banner government
failed to keep its promise to answer the herders’ call. “We
were here on October 29th as well. What the government told
us was to answer our demand today, Monday,” the protestor
said. “But it has been three hours already. No one from the
government is receiving us.” Being denied compensation for
two consecutive years starting in 2023, the herders called
for the higher authorities to intervene and demanded a
satisfactory explanation. Another herder from Heshigten
Banner ....
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Japan:
Chinese authorities harass critics abroad |
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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
up to his relative’s home. Three men, one apparently .... |
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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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