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In the territories of
Mongolians (including the whole Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region as
well as the Mongolian ethnic enclaves in Xinjiang-Uygur Autonomous
Region and the neighboring provinces such as Heilongjiang, Jilin,
Liaoning, Henan, Qinghai and Gansu), they have been deprived of all
kinds of their rights by the Chinese government and people (Han
people) since the foundation of the People¡¯s Republic of China. In
particular, during the era of the Great Cultural Revolution, the
government extensively committed carnage and torture under its
policy of practically eradicating the Mongolians and massacring the
lives of hundreds of thousands of Mongolians. Mongolians are
traditionally devout Tibetan Buddhists, but their inherent faith is
gradually extinguished with the destroyed Buddhist temples and
oppressed Buddhist monks and nuns .
The situation in Mongolia has not changed even after the end of
Great Cultural Revolution and new coming of Reform and Openness.
Predatory development is turning the grassland of Mongolia into
desert, while disorderly plant construction is causing environmental
destruction. Inflow of the Han people and their commercial monopoly
and land grab are still going on. Meanwhile, the Chinese government
forcibly puts Mongolians under ¡°obscurantist education¡± which
intends to assimilate other ethnic groups to the Han people and
deeply hurts the identity of Mongolians by depriving of their
language and culture.
Mongolians have begun to take action against such tyranny. Despite
suffering arrest and torment£¬ they are persistently staging protests
in pursuit of the human rights and autonomy of Mongolians as their
innate rights. Various groups and individuals who had been seeking
freedom and human rights in South Mongolia from diversified
standpoints while living outside the country have decided to
establish a solidarity union called ¡°Quriltai¡± (the World Conference
for Southern Mongolia) in Japan in November 2016 with the aim of
supporting people fighting in the country and appealing
international community to focus on the problems in Mongolia through
the organization of broader solidarity.
Quriltai is named after a council formed by chiefs of nomadic tribes
under the rule of Genghis Khan, the founder of the Mongol Empire and
a great hero of our people, to make decisions on Mongolian politics
and legislation in a democratic manner. We are determined to inherit
its spirit and act for the preservation of our history, tradition
and culture and the establishment of our right to self-determination
on the basis of the philosophy of self-determination of peoples in
modern politics.
By forming this organization in Japan, a democratic nation in Asia,
we could bring invaluable hopes to the current Mongolians suppressed
by the Chinese government. Thank you for your support of all those
who respect the human rights of the world£®
The Quriltai inaugural meeting
Date: November 2016 (scheduled)
Location: Tokyo
Preparatory committee for the Southern Mongolian Congress
02.16.2016
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