Herdsmen in several soums of the Xingan League’s Horqin Right Wing Central Banner in Inner Mongolia, dissatisfied with local officials’ corruption, enrichment and detention of petitioning villagers, recently published an open letter to a group of senior officials, including President Xi Jinping and 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 farmers and herders from various soums (towns) in the Khorqin Right Wing Central Banner in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, have been detained for long periods of time for petitioning, and their demands have not been heard by central leaders. Recently, they published an open letter through Radio Free Asia, asking top officials in Beijing to directly address their complaints.
The signatories of the letter denounced the 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 petition matters, retaliating against petitioners, and conniving to harbor village bullies and protect corrupt elements. We have more than a dozen townships and three dozen Mongolian herders who have come together to join the petition,” co-signer Gao Wulong told Radio Free Asia this week. The key issue is the falsification of poverty alleviation projects, as well as the occupation of pastureland, which has led to fatalities all over. The herdsmen petitioned, and the Public Security Bureau of Horqin Right Wing Central Banner special police arrested them one by one and detained them. So the joint petition has no effect until now.”
The villagers in the town of Good Waist Sumu in Inner Mongolia’s Khorqin Right Central Banner pointed to the secretary of the Baiyin Wendur Gacha in Huashuo Sumu, Wang Shuanglin, who destroyed the corn field.
Grassroots corruption petition results in the plaintiff became the defendant
The open letter writes that the joint petition is in response to the call of President Xi Jinping, on the local corruption issues in accordance with the law and procedures to reflect the report has been many years, but due to local officials to protect each claim is sunk in stone, but also by the interceptors after persuasion, the detention of some of the petitioners, and even sentenced to imprisonment. Gao Wulong, who has been petitioning for years, said most of them have been detained many times: “Most of them have been detained once, twice and three times. I was detained three times in 2019.”
Left: Villagers in the town of Good Waist Sumu, in Inner Mongolia’s Khoe Right Central Banner, point to Wang Shuanglin, secretary of Baiyin Wendurgacha in Huashuo Sumu, for destroying corn fields. ; Right: public letters of help from Inner Mongolia farmers and herdsmen to top officials including Communist Party President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang.
Herder Wu Babaoshan is also one of the petition letter co-signers. He saw that the banner investment in the enterprise, recklessly cut down has been growing for a thousand years of national protection of the species of Mongolian yellow elm, so that the fragile local ecological environment was destroyed. In desperation, he contacted the CCTV reporter to local interviews. When the reporter left the same day, three masked thugs broke down the door and smashed it, and Wu Baibao’s son was beaten to a fracture. He told the station, “I called CCTV to cover the reporter in order to protect the ecological environment was seriously damaged, the reporter left that night, the thugs broke into the house, beat my son into a fracture, so far not solved, is the Public Security Bureau joint (do). 2018, the central anti-blighting, they were arrested six people, the main culprit village chief has not been arrested, the leaders here are Officials protect each other.”
Theft of grants to poor households is a common problem
Good waist Sumu (town) herdsman Nashun Gozhita told the station that the village cadres corruption examples, numerous: “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 so many people who don’t get a penny of the poverty subsidy.”
China announced late last year that the country’s poor would all be lifted out of poverty. Herder Nashun Gozhita said that in 2014, the village’s 83 poor households, less than half of them got subsidies: “The poor households in 2014, our gacha 83 households, got subsidies forty to forty households, the other forty households did not get a penny, were allocated away by the town leaders, gacha (village) leaders.”
Mongolian herdsmen Li Shuangquan and Wu Babaoshan.
Village supporters become village bully villagers suffer
Good waist Sumu (town) Chashen set Bu Gacha Mao Du Aili villagers said, Hua Husuo Sumu Baiyin Wendur 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.
The 68-year-old Mongolian herder Tong Desheng told the station that half a month ago, Wang Shuanglin has been dismissed: “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.”
Li Shuangquan, a herdsman from Gaolipan Township in Ke’right Central Banner, said to the station that his village cadres cronies had been encroaching on his family’s pasture, 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, taking the gacha as a unit. To find out the local corrupt officials.
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