#Newspaper
China cracks down on Inner Mongolian minority fighting for its mother tongue
A police source within Inner Mongolia who requested anonymity for his protection told The Times that security forces across the region were working overtime. They’d been detaining several people a day for the last two weeks in his local police station alone, he said. He showed The Times images of arrest orders on the police force’s platform and said they received new targets every two to three hours, usually people who had been protesting or supporting protests online.
The police were entering these Mongols’ homes and making them sign pledges to not speak against the bilingual program anymore, the source said. If they did not comply, they were detained, he said, and would become “key individuals,” marked in China’s police databases as threats to security requiring targeted surveillance and control.
Full Article: Latimes, (03-Sep)
#Mongolian #CultureGenocide #CCP
China cracks down on Inner Mongolian minority fighting for its mother tongue
A police source within Inner Mongolia who requested anonymity for his protection told The Times that security forces across the region were working overtime. They’d been detaining several people a day for the last two weeks in his local police station alone, he said. He showed The Times images of arrest orders on the police force’s platform and said they received new targets every two to three hours, usually people who had been protesting or supporting protests online.
The police were entering these Mongols’ homes and making them sign pledges to not speak against the bilingual program anymore, the source said. If they did not comply, they were detained, he said, and would become “key individuals,” marked in China’s police databases as threats to security requiring targeted surveillance and control.
Full Article: Latimes, (03-Sep)
#Mongolian #CultureGenocide #CCP
Inner Mongolian Official Falls to Death with Note Citing Pressure in Protecting Native Language, Husband Silenced by Domestic Security Police
33 year-old Inner Mongolian official Surnaa fell to her death from her residence on the early morning of 4 September. The police claimed that the ethnic Mongolian employee of the government of Alxa League had been suffering from depression, but a death note attributed to the deceased circulating on the Internet suggests that her death was related to the Mongolians’ ongoing movement to protect their native tongue.
Protests broke out recently in places including Tongliao City and Urad Middle Banner with Mongolian farmers and herdsmen resisting the authorities’ push for Mandarin as the medium of instruction. Over the past week, there have been reports of people mysteriously falling to their death during the protests. The authorities have blocked the information, leaving the names and the backgrounds of the deceased unknown.
Surnaa was the fourth person to have fallen to death since the demonstrations began. Her husband, Altanbagan, has confirmed the incident. Speaking to Radio Free Asia (RFA), Mongolian scholar and advocate of farmers’ and herdsmen’s rights Kubis confirmed that “a civil servant in Alxa League has committed suicide.” Another Mongolian said that “a Mongolian woman in Alxa League jumped to her death in protest of the government’s abolishment of the Mongolian language as the medium of instruction,” noting that “the details are still being verified.”
Source: Apple Daily #Sep05
#Surnaa
#PoliticalOppression #InnerMongolia #SouthernMongolia #Mongolian #Education #MotherTongue #Protest
https://bit.ly/35hjWri
33 year-old Inner Mongolian official Surnaa fell to her death from her residence on the early morning of 4 September. The police claimed that the ethnic Mongolian employee of the government of Alxa League had been suffering from depression, but a death note attributed to the deceased circulating on the Internet suggests that her death was related to the Mongolians’ ongoing movement to protect their native tongue.
Protests broke out recently in places including Tongliao City and Urad Middle Banner with Mongolian farmers and herdsmen resisting the authorities’ push for Mandarin as the medium of instruction. Over the past week, there have been reports of people mysteriously falling to their death during the protests. The authorities have blocked the information, leaving the names and the backgrounds of the deceased unknown.
Surnaa was the fourth person to have fallen to death since the demonstrations began. Her husband, Altanbagan, has confirmed the incident. Speaking to Radio Free Asia (RFA), Mongolian scholar and advocate of farmers’ and herdsmen’s rights Kubis confirmed that “a civil servant in Alxa League has committed suicide.” Another Mongolian said that “a Mongolian woman in Alxa League jumped to her death in protest of the government’s abolishment of the Mongolian language as the medium of instruction,” noting that “the details are still being verified.”
Source: Apple Daily #Sep05
#Surnaa
#PoliticalOppression #InnerMongolia #SouthernMongolia #Mongolian #Education #MotherTongue #Protest
https://bit.ly/35hjWri
#Newspaper
Southern Mongolian Herders Further Suppressed
//As the CCP’s drive to wipe out Mongolian culture intensifies, new measures are planned to ban livestock grazing—an integral part of the traditional nomadic lifestyle.
//the CCP declares that it aims to “recover the grassland ecosystem.” In reality, though, the end goal seems to be a complete eradication of the Mongolian nomadic way of life.
//We, ethnic people, can do nothing but graze. If we are forbidden from grazing, how is it different from slaughtering us?”
//“It’s wrong that grazing is prohibited in the name of restoring grassland ecology, shifting the blame onto five animals and Mongolians,”... “If mining is stopped, grassland ecology will restore its balance itself.”
Full article: Bitter Winter, (15-Sep)
https://bitterwinter.org/southern-mongolian-herders-further-suppressed/
Further reading:
A Thousand-Year-Old Tibetan Buddhist Temple Destroyed in Shanxi
https://bitterwinter.org/a-thousand-year-old-tibetan-buddhist-temple-destroyed-in-shanxi/?fbclid=IwAR3pTY5wVA0u3VT7Shh-_wrvRYKYIpLuIrla4qGxjozGb5VYjeqYFtJ19e0
#Mongolian #GrazingBan #CultureGenocide #CCP
Southern Mongolian Herders Further Suppressed
//As the CCP’s drive to wipe out Mongolian culture intensifies, new measures are planned to ban livestock grazing—an integral part of the traditional nomadic lifestyle.
//the CCP declares that it aims to “recover the grassland ecosystem.” In reality, though, the end goal seems to be a complete eradication of the Mongolian nomadic way of life.
//We, ethnic people, can do nothing but graze. If we are forbidden from grazing, how is it different from slaughtering us?”
//“It’s wrong that grazing is prohibited in the name of restoring grassland ecology, shifting the blame onto five animals and Mongolians,”... “If mining is stopped, grassland ecology will restore its balance itself.”
Full article: Bitter Winter, (15-Sep)
https://bitterwinter.org/southern-mongolian-herders-further-suppressed/
Further reading:
A Thousand-Year-Old Tibetan Buddhist Temple Destroyed in Shanxi
https://bitterwinter.org/a-thousand-year-old-tibetan-buddhist-temple-destroyed-in-shanxi/?fbclid=IwAR3pTY5wVA0u3VT7Shh-_wrvRYKYIpLuIrla4qGxjozGb5VYjeqYFtJ19e0
#Mongolian #GrazingBan #CultureGenocide #CCP
Embassy in Mongolia Returned the Letter about the Opposition to Chinese Teaching Materials in Inner Mongolia: Wrong Point of View
Inner Mongolia Education Department required all institutions to teach in Chinese instead of Mongolian, which triggered local citizens to protest. The Former Mongolian President, Elbegdorj Tsakhia, sent a letter to President Xi Jinping yesterday (25th September), demonstrating the push in Chinese teaching materials in Inner Mongolia. He posted in Twitter today that the Chinese Embassy in Mongolia had returned his letter. He also emphasized, he would not retract that letter and stated that the letter had already drawn many attentions in society.
According to RTHK quoted the letter from Chinese Ambassador, Chai Wenrui, to Elbegdorj Tsakhia, indicated that all affairs related to Inner Mongolia, including bilingual education, were China’s internal affairs and no interference from others was allowed. They also said the view in Elbegdorji's letter was completely wrong that China would not accept it. China hopes that he would respect China’s sovereignty based on the relationship between the two countries, identify the truth and stop speculating on relevant issues.
Chai said he noted that Elbegdorji had recently made many remarks on the reform of bilingual education in Inner Mongolia. However, the national-common language is a symbol of national sovereignty. It is the right and obligation of every citizen to learn and use the language. At the same time, the Chinese government protects the rights of ethnic minorities, including Mongolians, to use their own spoken and written languages.
Elbegdorji’s letter stated that the Chinese Constitution stipulated all ethnic groups have the freedom to use and develop their language but the freedom of Mongolian children in Inner Mongolia is being violated. He pointed out that he wrote the letter as he could not ignore the problem, describing that thousands of Mongolians and their children desired China to fulfil their rights under the constitution, they are suffering indescribably.
Source from: Stand News #Sep26
https://bit.ly/2ShXozi
#China #Chinese #Mongolia #Mongolian #Bilingual #Education #ElbegdorjTsakhia #ChaiWenrui
Inner Mongolia Education Department required all institutions to teach in Chinese instead of Mongolian, which triggered local citizens to protest. The Former Mongolian President, Elbegdorj Tsakhia, sent a letter to President Xi Jinping yesterday (25th September), demonstrating the push in Chinese teaching materials in Inner Mongolia. He posted in Twitter today that the Chinese Embassy in Mongolia had returned his letter. He also emphasized, he would not retract that letter and stated that the letter had already drawn many attentions in society.
According to RTHK quoted the letter from Chinese Ambassador, Chai Wenrui, to Elbegdorj Tsakhia, indicated that all affairs related to Inner Mongolia, including bilingual education, were China’s internal affairs and no interference from others was allowed. They also said the view in Elbegdorji's letter was completely wrong that China would not accept it. China hopes that he would respect China’s sovereignty based on the relationship between the two countries, identify the truth and stop speculating on relevant issues.
Chai said he noted that Elbegdorji had recently made many remarks on the reform of bilingual education in Inner Mongolia. However, the national-common language is a symbol of national sovereignty. It is the right and obligation of every citizen to learn and use the language. At the same time, the Chinese government protects the rights of ethnic minorities, including Mongolians, to use their own spoken and written languages.
Elbegdorji’s letter stated that the Chinese Constitution stipulated all ethnic groups have the freedom to use and develop their language but the freedom of Mongolian children in Inner Mongolia is being violated. He pointed out that he wrote the letter as he could not ignore the problem, describing that thousands of Mongolians and their children desired China to fulfil their rights under the constitution, they are suffering indescribably.
Source from: Stand News #Sep26
https://bit.ly/2ShXozi
#China #Chinese #Mongolia #Mongolian #Bilingual #Education #ElbegdorjTsakhia #ChaiWenrui
Japanese-Mongolian Professor Said China Should Maintain Language Diversity
Mongolians earlier held a demonstration in Japan to oppose the Chinese-teaching Policy in Mongolia. A participant criticised the Chinese Government for eliminating the Mongolian language. A person from the organiser believed that Inner-Mongolia was a model and obedient autonomous region. It is not understandable of why the authority still push forward the policy.
Originally a Mongolian now residing in Japan, Yang Haiying, the Professor in Shizuoka University analyzed that the Chinese Government wanted to strengthen Chinese teaching promotion was as they are worried about the separatism appeared in Mongolia. However, he said that it would be counterproductive if the language diversity is not preserved.
#Japan #China #InnerMongolia #Mongolia #LanguageDiversity #ChineseTeaching #Mongolian
Source: RTHK #Oct05
https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/component/k2/1553089-20201005.htm
Mongolians earlier held a demonstration in Japan to oppose the Chinese-teaching Policy in Mongolia. A participant criticised the Chinese Government for eliminating the Mongolian language. A person from the organiser believed that Inner-Mongolia was a model and obedient autonomous region. It is not understandable of why the authority still push forward the policy.
Originally a Mongolian now residing in Japan, Yang Haiying, the Professor in Shizuoka University analyzed that the Chinese Government wanted to strengthen Chinese teaching promotion was as they are worried about the separatism appeared in Mongolia. However, he said that it would be counterproductive if the language diversity is not preserved.
#Japan #China #InnerMongolia #Mongolia #LanguageDiversity #ChineseTeaching #Mongolian
Source: RTHK #Oct05
https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/component/k2/1553089-20201005.htm
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日籍蒙族教授認為中國應維持語言多樣性 否則適得其反
在日本的蒙古族人早前遊行，抗議内蒙古推行的漢語教學政策。有參與者批評當局謀殺蒙古語，有組織者認為，内蒙是模範和聽話的自治區，不理解當局為何强推政策。 已入籍日本、本身是蒙古族的靜岡大學教授楊海英分析，內地當局加強推動漢語教學，是擔心内蒙出現分離主義。但他認為應該保留語言多樣性，否則會適得其反。
#CulturalGenocide
China Pushes 85% of Population Speaking Putonghua by 2025 Even Among Ethnic Minorities
The #PRCgovernment is stepping up efforts to popularize #Putonghua in China, claiming that the use of putonghua remains “unbalanced and inadequate” and needs to be improved to meet the demands of the modern economy.
For the first time, the #PRC government named the two Special Administrative Regions, #HongKong and #Macau, for the new policy.
On November 30, the General Office of the State Council issued a set of new policies on language for #PRC, “Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Comprehensively Strengthening Language and Writing Work in the New Era (關於全面加強新時代語言文字工作的意見)”.
The policy stressed the importance of speaking and using a standardized language, saying that the authorities will “unswervingly" promote the usage among ethnic minorities and in rural areas.
It also set a goal for the national penetration rate of Putonghua to reach 85% by 2025. Along with the 2025 goal, the policy aims to make Putonghua virtually universal by 2035, including in rural areas and among #EthnicMinorities.
The media described the new order as an “aggressive push” to the Chinese regional dialects such as #Cantonese and #Hokkien under even greater pressure, along with #minority languages such as #Tibetan, #Mongolian and #Uyghur.
Critics have protested the changes to the education system and employment requirements that have steadily eroded the role of minority languages. They call it a campaign to eradicate cultures that do not conform with the dominant ethnic group.
#CCP #China #MotherTongue #Language #Assimilation
Source: RFA #Dec2; Bloomberg, #Dec1
https://www.facebook.com/454004001340790/posts/6502480579826405/
China Pushes 85% of Population Speaking Putonghua by 2025 Even Among Ethnic Minorities
The #PRCgovernment is stepping up efforts to popularize #Putonghua in China, claiming that the use of putonghua remains “unbalanced and inadequate” and needs to be improved to meet the demands of the modern economy.
For the first time, the #PRC government named the two Special Administrative Regions, #HongKong and #Macau, for the new policy.
On November 30, the General Office of the State Council issued a set of new policies on language for #PRC, “Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Comprehensively Strengthening Language and Writing Work in the New Era (關於全面加強新時代語言文字工作的意見)”.
The policy stressed the importance of speaking and using a standardized language, saying that the authorities will “unswervingly" promote the usage among ethnic minorities and in rural areas.
It also set a goal for the national penetration rate of Putonghua to reach 85% by 2025. Along with the 2025 goal, the policy aims to make Putonghua virtually universal by 2035, including in rural areas and among #EthnicMinorities.
The media described the new order as an “aggressive push” to the Chinese regional dialects such as #Cantonese and #Hokkien under even greater pressure, along with #minority languages such as #Tibetan, #Mongolian and #Uyghur.
Critics have protested the changes to the education system and employment requirements that have steadily eroded the role of minority languages. They call it a campaign to eradicate cultures that do not conform with the dominant ethnic group.
#CCP #China #MotherTongue #Language #Assimilation
Source: RFA #Dec2; Bloomberg, #Dec1
https://www.facebook.com/454004001340790/posts/6502480579826405/
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