Inner Mongolian herdsmen petition Xi and Li.
In Inner Mongolia, China, dozens of herders dissatisfied with the corruption and enrichment of local officials and the detention of petitioning villagers recently published an open letter to a group of senior officials, including Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping and Communist Party Premier Li Keqiang, through Radio Free Asia. The farmers and herdsmen hope that in the new year, the central government will implement the demands of the grassroots people.
More than 30 Mongolian peasants and herders from various soums (towns) in the Khorqin Right Wing Middle Banner in Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia, have been detained for long periods of time for petitioning, and their demands have not been heard by central leaders. They recently published an open letter through Radio Free Asia, asking senior officials in Beijing to address their grievances directly.
The signatories of the letter denounced officials of the Koyu Central Banner Committee, the Banner government, and the public prosecution and law enforcement departments, accusing them of shielding officials, playing favorites, backlogging petitions, retaliating against petitioners, and conniving to harbor village bullies and protect corrupt elements. Gao Wulong, a co-signer, told Radio Free Asia this week that they have repeatedly complained through official channels to no avail.
A public letter of help from Inner Mongolia farmers and herdsmen to top officials, including Communist Party President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang. (Courtesy of volunteers)
Gao Wulong said: We have more than a dozen townships, more than three dozen Mongolian herdsmen gathered together to jointly sign. The key problem is that poverty alleviation projects are falsified, and pastures are occupied, leading to fatalities are. The herdsmen petitioned the Public Security Bureau of horqin right wing banner special police to arrest and detain them one by one. So the joint petition is not effective until now.
Grassroots corruption petition results in plaintiffs becoming defendants
The open letter states that the joint petition is in response to President Xi Jinping’s call to reflect and report on local corruption for many years in accordance with the law, but due to the protection of local officials, every petition has been sunk in the sea, and some of the petitioners have been detained and even sentenced to prison after being persuaded to return by interceptors. Gao Wulong, who has been petitioning for years, said most of them have been detained many times.
Gao Wulong said: most of them have been detained, once, twice and three times. I was detained three times in 2019.
Herdsman Wu Babaoshan is also one of the petition letter co-signers. He saw that the enterprises coming in from the banner’s investment were recklessly cutting down the Mongolian yellow elm, a national-level protected tree that has been growing for a thousand years, leaving the fragile local ecological environment damaged again. In desperation, he contacted the CCTV reporter to local interviews. On the day the reporter left, three masked thugs broke down the door and smashed the house, and Wu Babao’s son was beaten to a fracture.
The company’s main goal is to protect the ecological environment by calling the CCTV reporter, and the reporter left that night, the thugs broke into the house and beat my son to a fracture, and so far the case has not been solved, that is, the Public Security Bureau jointly (do). 2018, the central government to combat evil, six of them were arrested, the main culprit village chief has not been arrested, the leaders here are the officials protect each other.
Mongolian herders Li Shuangquan and Wu Babaoshan. (Courtesy of volunteers)
Theft of grants to poor households is a common problem
Good waist Sumu (village) herder Nashun Gozhita told the station that there are numerous examples of corruption among cadres in the village.
Nashun Gozhita said: our village cadres corruption is too much, poverty, low income, the people’s pasture matter, the superiors to our village feed plant, all by the individual hijacked. The village secretary here, he has too many things. The village secretary is Jin Wanxi (ph), and there are many people who have not received a single penny of the poverty subsidy.
China announced late last year that the country’s poor would all be lifted out of poverty. Nashungo Rita said that in 2014, 83 poor households in the village received subsidies for less than half of them.
Nashun Gozhita said: 2014 poor households, we gacha 83 households, get subsidies forty households, another forty households did not get a penny, are allocated away by the town leaders, gacha leaders.
The village secretary into the village bully villagers suffer
Good waist Sumu Chashen set Bu Gacha Mao Du Aili villagers said that the flower Huushuo Sumu Baiyin Wenduer Gacha secretary Wang Shuanglin, last year (2020) September 19 with people, raking the village villagers Geri Le Tu, Szhiguleng, Bai Tie Ming, Qinghai a total of 460 acres of corn land, the villagers a year of hard work planting crops, overnight was illegally destroyed, no harvest. Previously, Wang Shuanglin has repeatedly led people to forcibly occupy villagers’ pastures and woodlands, and even assaulted villagers. However, this person is still at large.
Tong Desheng, a 68-year-old Mongolian herdsman, told the station that Wang Shuanglin was dismissed from his job half a month ago.
Tong Desheng said: less than half a month was removed from office, is investigating him. Wang Shuanglin is actually a gacha secretary, the people above him have backers.
The villagers in the town of Good Waist Sumu, in Inner Mongolia’s Kebele Right Central Banner, pointed out that Wang Shuanglin, secretary of the Baiyin Wendur Gacha in Huashuo Sumu, destroyed the corn fields. (Provided by volunteers)
Li Shuangquan, a herdsman in Gaolipan Town, Kebu Central Banner, told this station that his village cadres’ cronies have been encroaching on his family’s pastureland and have been petitioning for years with no way to complain. In the letter, more than 30 herders requested the central government to investigate the list of all state subsidies and project funds on a year-by-year basis from 2007 to the present, on a gacha basis. To find out the local corrupt officials.
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