The Parliamentary Alliance for Southern Mongolia, formed by members of the Japanese Senate and House of Representatives, has been established in view of the many restrictions on the living conditions of Mongolians in China. Former Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Takayoshi Hayabusa will be the founding representative. The coalition is the third Japanese organization after Tibet and Xinjiang to focus on the rights of ethnic minorities in China.
The multi-party “Parliamentary Alliance for Southern Mongolia,” which was initiated by volunteers from the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan to protect the language and culture of Mongolians in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, where they have been forced to assimilate, is the first parliamentary organization in the world to address the issue of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The coalition will meet at the Japanese Diet this Wednesday, April 21, with former Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Takayoshi Hayabusa as the founding representative.
In an interview with Radio Free Asia on the same day, Tetsumon, a Mongolian now living in Japan, said.
“The establishment of the Southern Mongolian National Assembly Union in the Japanese Diet today is a great encouragement to the Southern Mongolians in exile, and it is a top priority to express concern about the cultural clan extermination practiced by the Chinese government in Southern Mongolia. This is the result of the work of the Great Hural Parliament of Southern Mongolia (World Conference of Southern Mongolians) in Japan during these years. “
Supporting and helping Inner Mongolian ethnic groups to defend their rights
This March, Japanese Diet members held a seminar on how to protect the language and culture of the Mongolian people in China. The legislators were assisted in raising awareness of the plight of the people in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and proposed a resolution in cooperation with the Uighur Parliamentary Union of Japan and other organizations condemning the Chinese government’s persecution of various ethnic minority groups.
Kubis, a scholar living in Japan, told the station that a few years ago, Xi Haiming, president of the Great Hural Parliament of Southern Mongolia, sent a request to Japanese parliamentarians to set up an organization focusing on the Mongolian people of China’s struggle for freedom and human rights, and that the former president of Mongolia also made a related proposal to Japanese lawmakers last August after people in Inner Mongolia launched a campaign to protect their mother tongue. He said, “So it was responded by several members of the Japanese Diet and also influenced by the Xinjiang education camp and the Hong Kong incident to set up a coalition in the Diet to support Southern Mongolia. And they agreed to do so, and it was officially established this afternoon.”
Successively established the Tibetan Xinjiang Southern Mongolia Alliance
The president of the German-based Great Hural Parliament of Southern Mongolia, Xi Haiming, was very encouraged by the establishment of the alliance by Japanese lawmakers. He told the station that there were already previous parliamentary alliances in the Japanese Diet that focused on Tibet and Xinjiang: “Japanese parliamentarians are increasingly concerned about the persecution and abuse of human rights by Chinese officials, and in Southern Mongolia, a reduction in teaching in Mongolian occurred last year. Japanese parliamentarians have considered and studied many aspects, and finally multi-party parliamentarians voluntarily formed a coalition.”
Last fall, Inner Mongolia authorities promoted so-called bilingual education and revised primary and secondary school textbooks to change the Mongolian language to Mandarin, triggering hundreds of thousands of demonstrations and strikes, and many people were detained.
Japan’s parliament is as concerned about Southern Mongolia as Britain is about Hong Kong
Professor Yang Haiying of Shizuoka University was invited to the inaugural meeting of the Parliamentary Alliance for Southern Mongolia. He told us after the meeting that the support for the struggle in Southern Mongolia is a kind of “just intervention”, just like France’s support for the economic development of North Africa, where it once ruled, and Britain’s support for the people of Hong Kong: “The Japanese government has only expressed its remorse to China. But for Taiwan, for Manchukuo and Southern Mongolia, she didn’t intervene for a while, but now it’s very much like the British constructive intervention in Hong Kong, the French constructive intervention in North Africa, it’s constructive intervention, it’s a constructive intervention of righteous nationalism.”
An official from the Japanese Parliamentarians’ Union said, “Given the historical background, it is significant that Japan is leading efforts to improve human rights in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.”
At the inaugural meeting, Professor Yang Haiying, as president of the World Federation of Mongolia, addressed the dozens of members of Congress in attendance. On behalf of the Great Hural Parliament of Southern Mongolia, Xi Haiming, who is in Germany, would like to thank the members of the Japanese Diet, government officials and people for their understanding and support of the people of Southern Mongolia.
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