Chinese Minister of Public Security Zhao Kezhi travels to (Inner) Mongolia and orders a ruthless crackdown on the protests. The crackdown has already begun.
Inner Mongolia “should keep in mind the fundamental political attribute of the Party’s surname of public security, unswervingly adhere to the Party’s absolute leadership of public security work, always use the Party’s banner as the banner, the Party’s direction as the direction, and the Party’s will as the will, to ensure that at all times and under all circumstances, resolutely listen to the Party and follow the Party’s orders,” said Chinese Public Security Minister Zhao Kezhi during an emergency inspection of Inner Mongolia (better known locally as Southern Mongolia), where the Chinese Communist Party “should push forward the anti-secession struggle, closely implement anti-terrorism and anti-terrorist measures, and do a solid job of maintaining stability and promoting national unity in the field of ethnicity and religion.
Zhao Kechi was not just talking. In Inner Mongolia, where more than 300,000 students have taken to the streets to protest the use of Chinese instead of Mongolian as the primary language of education, the Chinese Communist Party has identified the “main culprits” of the protests and has issued a list of wanted persons in various cities (see examples here). Hundreds of such “main offenders” are wanted, and a 1,000 RMB reward is offered for information.
According to reports, two parents who refused to send their children to school “committed suicide,” one a woman from Zhenglan Banner, a teacher, and the other a man from Tongliao City, whose wife was a teacher.
Video: Inner Mongolia Radio and Television employees sign statement in support of protest (Video credits: Southern Mongolia Human Rights Information Center)
The situation remains difficult for the CCP as students continue to strike and, in a campaign unprecedented in China, all 300 employees of the Communist Party-affiliated Inner Mongolia Radio and Television (NMRTV) have signed a document stating that they will all resign if parents at the media outlet who refuse to send their children to school are punished.
The CCP also shut down the popular Mongolian social media platform Bainu (which means “How are you?” in Mongolian). This is an attempt to make it more difficult for protesters to communicate with each other.
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