Japanese Citizens Support
Southern Mongolian Self-determination
April19, 2009
The following is an English text of a protest speech by Mr.Nagayama
Hideki, a Japanese citizen and the President of Taiwanese Research
Forum, in support of the self-determination of Southern (Inner)
Mongolia:
Under the Chinese colonial regime, the Southern Mongolians, a
peace-loving and kind-hearted people, have been unilaterally
massacred by the Chinese Communist Party over the past 60 years. At
that time, as a result the total population of Southern Mongolians
has been reducedto 75% of 1.4 million. In other words, a quarter of
the entire population or hundreds of thousands of innocent Southern
Mongolians had been arrested, jailed, tortured and killed by the
Chinese Communist Party for nonexistent crimes. Why then didn¨t
these brave people resist these massacres? Because the harshness of
the persecution, brutality of the torture and cruelty of the
massacres were so overwhelming that these brave Mongolians were not
even given enough of a break to resist. Dear peace-loving friends,
we are strongly denouncing this 40 year long human tragedy and crime
against humanity carried out by the Chinese Communist Party¨s ethnic
policy in Southern Mongolia.
Lets direct our attention to this fact: before the massacres of
Tibetans and Uyghurs, the CCP had already massacred hundreds of
thousands of Mongolians in Southern Mongolia. Recently, a Tibetan
exile commented on the massacre of Southern Mongolians committed by
CCP: the massacre of Southern Mongolians was in fact a rehearsal of
the massacre of Tibetans carried out by the CCP. This is how
Tibetans see this event. Therefore, the people who were massacred by
the CCP are not only the Tibetans, not only the Uyghurs, but also
the Southern Mongolians. It is the Southern Mongolians who were
totally innocent but still have been targeted by the CCP for ethnic
cleansing and ethnic genocide. What then are the ＾crimes￣ of the
Southern Mongolians? Why have these people been subjected to ethnic
cleansing despite the fact that they have not resisted the CCP
oppressive regime? The answer is simply that the Chinese want the
territory of Southern Mongolia to be a Chinese colonial area where
the Chinese population can freely pour in. Currently, the Southern
Mongolian territory is overwhelmingly occupied by the Chinese rather
than by the indigenous Mongolian themselves. It is due to the
Chinese population transfer and population explosion, that the
Southern Mongolians are at the brink of ethnic extermination.
As you may know, Southern Mongolians are predominantly a nomadic
people. They have been practicing livestock herding to maintain
their livelihood. However, the CCP have even prohibited them from
herding their animals. Furthermore, the Southern Mongolians are
deprived of their right to employment opportunity. Therefore, they
are experiencing an extreme hardship in maintaining their
livelihood, being gradually pushed to the edge of the society. As a
result, the society of Southern Mongolia has become a place where
everything is controlled by the Chinese.
The language of Southern Mongolia is Mongolian, not Chinese.
However, the CCP is banning the use of the Mongolian language in
social and public life. The Southern Mongolians are deprived of
their space for social activity on their own land. As a result, it
is extremely difficult for the Mongolians to preserve their unique
way of life without being assimilated by the Chinese. Where else is
there a colonial regime as repressive as this?
The 20th century had seen the big powers of Western Europe and the
Soviet Union put many Asian nations under their colonial regimes.
However their regimes had never been as brutal as that of the
Chinese. Britain and France did not carried out ethnic cleansing
policy in their colonial territories. In contrast, the CCP is doing
so in its colonial area --- Southern Mongolia. Now the CCP is
implementing its policy of ethnic cleansing and ethnic extermination
in Tibet and Uyghur nations, but the same ethnic cleansing was
carried out in Southern Mongolia prior to these events and is
nearing the end.
Dear supporters, up until the middle of the Second World War,
Southern Mongolians who are currently under the CCP oppressive
colonial regime considered the Japanese a very friendly ally. In
this region, with the assistance of Japanese military stationed
there, Mongolian people modernized their army and started
establishing their militarized national defense. Therefore,
comparing it with the CCP colonial regime, some elders even said
that the Japanese troops were better than the Chinese counterpart.
Some Southern Mongolians said the Japanese armies were in fact much
friendlier than both Kuomintang and the CCP armies, because the
Japanese military helped to modernize the Southern Mongolian
military forces. Unlike the Chinese military, Japanese military had
never carried out any massacre against the Southern Mongolians.
Therefore, Southern Mongolians under the Chinese regime are very
pro-Japanese and grateful to the Japanese for helping their
nation-building. However, today these people are suffering from
Chinese persecution, genocide and ethnic cleansing. We Japanese
people support the cause of Southern Mongolia, our former ally.
Currently Southern Mongolians are still very friendly to Japanese
people while they are suffering under the brutal Chinese regime. As
a friend shouldn¨t we work to liberate the Southern Mongolians from
Chinese state sanctioned terrorism? Let us fight for the cause of
our nation-friend. Let us work together toward the liberation of
Southern Mongolia that is still under the Chinese colonial regime.
Let us strive for the libration and self-determination of Southern
Mongolians, Tibetans, and Uyghurs, and for the defense of Taiwan
that has been the target of Chinese expansion. Let us Japanese
people join together with the Taiwanese, Tibetans and Southern
Mongolians to fight for their freedom and self-determination,
uncover the insidious nature of the CCP regime, and cause its
immediate collapse. Let our Asian nations have an agreement to make
Asia a peaceful and strong region. Dear friends, let us pay close
attention to the plight of Southern Mongolia. As Japanese citizens
let us strive for the liberation of Southern Mongolia.