Governments across China’s Inner Mongolia continue to make every effort to thwart the Mongolian resistance. In the past two days, the governments of Keshkoten Banner, Ungniut Banner, and Bahrain Right Banner have introduced various measures and used threats to coerce Mongolians to send their children to school for so-called bilingual education, and police have even broken into their homes in the middle of the night to rob students. Inner Mongolian rights activist Yang Jindu Lima and her husband were arrested for advocating mother-tongue education, and 12 others were also arrested.
On September 1 of this year, the Inner Mongolian authorities introduced the teaching of Chinese in ethnic schools, causing massive protests by Mongolians at home and abroad. This campaign to protect the Mongolian mother tongue has been going on for more than two weeks. Local authorities in China are using various means to try to put out this protest in defense of the Mongolian mother tongue.
Mongolian Kubis, who lives in Japan, told Radio Free Asia on Monday that the public security arrests continue throughout Inner Mongolia: “The most serious place is now Keshketeng Banner in Chifeng, where the arrests started the night before yesterday and 12 herders were arrested. .”
Reward and Punishment at the Same Time Promote Student Attendance
Keshketeng Banner, Xiwuqi Banner and Bahrain Right Banner No. 1 High School issued documents requesting students to return to school immediately. The Communist Youth League Committee of Wengniu Te Banner launched a “One Find One, Hand in Hand” back to school campaign, rewarding class teachers for bringing children back to school with a gift package worth 200 yuan for each student contacted. Xiwu Zhu Muqin Banner Court, Procuratorate, Public Security Bureau and other five departments issued a “Notice on the Disposition of Persons Violating Compulsory Education”, which will punish “those who still refuse to send their children or other wards to school after education” with a penalty of more than 500 yuan and less than 5,000 yuan. The notice from Daban No. 1 High School in Right Banner of Bahrain threatened parents with cancellation of school registration if they do not send their students to school on September 13.
The Kashkenten Banner Party Committee issued an official letter that removed three party secretaries, deputy secretaries, and chiefs of sugums from their positions in Kashkenten Banner.
Parents who do not send their children to school will be expelled from school
Nomin, a Mongolian now living in the U.S., told us that five officials have been suspended in Abaga Banner: “Three teachers have been suspended in Dongwu Banner. Now all the local governments have issued documents asking adults to send their children to school on a specified date, and those who don’t are expelled from their children’s school. Daban I Middle School of the Education Bureau of Abaga Banner, and even Bahrain Right Banner kindergartens send notices to parents that they will be expelled from school if they do not send their children on the designated date.”
In Inner Mongolia, authorities are punishing Mongols everywhere. The owner of the Matouqin factory in Hohhot tried to destroy the factory with a forklift because he didn’t send his children to school, but it’s okay to send your children to school without tearing down the factory,” Nomin said, citing a recent report. More than 20 students from Zhenglan Banner fled to the mountains, where their parents found them after several days of searching. It is said that there was another student riding a bicycle with 150 yuan in his pocket, and he said he wanted to go to Beijing to file a complaint.”
Inner Mongolia rights activist Yang Jindu Lima arrested
In addition, Yang Jindu Lima and her husband, a human rights activist from Abaga Banner in Xilin Gol League, Inner Mongolia, were recently arrested and their current condition is unknown. Nuo Min said: “Yang Jindu Lima is a very brave woman in the eyes of the herdsmen in Inner Mongolia, and she often helps farmers and herdsmen defend their rights. She just got married, the couple was imprisoned, the first time they were released, and a few days ago two more were arrested, and now there is no news.”
Nomin noted that on Sunday, Uran, the principal of a Mongolian school in Erlianhot, was removed from her post after she refused to be forced to implement the national standardized “language” textbook, and that Uran committed suicide. In the past two years, there have been more than 100 people who have attended the memorial service for Ulan, and they were stopped by more than 200 police officers.
For more than two weeks, Mongolians at home and abroad have opposed the Chinese government’s policy of so-called bilingual education in Mongolian schools, fearing that the Mongolian language is gradually being replaced by Chinese under the policy. Last Saturday and Sunday, hundreds of people marched and rallied in Tokyo and Osaka, respectively, while Mongolians in Paris marched to protest the imposition of bilingual education in Inner Mongolia.
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