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Open
letter from Mongol People Group to the United Nations Secretary
General Kofi Annan |
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New York City,
N.Y. 10017
Re: - Mongolian
students in Inner Mongolia resist Chinese government’s CURFEW on
the campuses of universities in Inner Mongolia;
- Mongols in free
world request the Chinese to stop remorseless colonization of
Inner Mongolia
November 7, 2004
Your Excellency:
According to the
Agence Frence Press, United Press International, Southern
Mongolian Human Rights Information Center, and Mongol American
Cultural Association, hundreds of heavy-equipped police and
security personnel have IMPOSED A CURFEW on the major campuses
of universities in Inner Mongolia and many student were arrested
and detained by police accusing them for “distributing leaflets
and planning demonstrations” during a peaceful student concert.
A planned concert by “Hurd”, a popular band of Ulaanbaatar,
Mongolia was canceled just as 2000 Mongolian students had
gathered to watch the concert.
This turmoil in
Inner Mongolia is a result of the Chinese mistreatment of
national minority in Inner Mongolia, as stated in European and
American publications. Recent years brought new confirmation
that the entire Inner Mongolia history of Chinese supremacy is
riddled with socio-political monopolies and corruption in the
Mongolian economy. Inner Mongolia is filled with inhuman
suffering, segregation, discrimination and pain, especially the
past half century.
According to The
New York Times newspaper of July, 1992 and to the Asia Watch
publications the following conclusions could be made:
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The present program
of Chinese mass colonization which threatens to swallow up and
destroy the people of Inner Mongolia is a flagrant violation of
human rights, according to the United Nations Charter.
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Recent statistics
reveal that the Mongolian population has been outnumbered in the
Mongolian regions by a ratio of two to eight and in some areas
twenty to one.
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In order to speed
up the colonization and assimilation of Mongols with the
Chinese, the size of the territory of Inner Mongolian Autonomous
Region was reduced to 450,000 square kilometer for a 10 year
period by a Chinese administration decree of August 1969.
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As a result of this
unilateral Chinese administrative decree, the majority of the
Mongolian population (approximately 75%) was under direct
Chinese jurisdiction and was and shall remain subject to Chinese
assimilation within the next couple decades.
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Under these
circumstances, the Inner Mongols living both inside and outside
their autonomous region are deprived of the most elementary
national rights, not even having the rights in certain areas to
speak Mongolian in the presence of the Chinese, according to
Mongolian and Chinese speaking visitors from the region.
With the full
respect for the Chinese people and their culture, philosophy and
technology, we earnestly hope that it will be possible for the
United Nations and international press media to undertake
actions for the self-determination of Inner Mongolia, because
the first time, we feel that the present Chinese government may
respond to the world public opinion.
Sincerely Yours,
Djab Naminow
Burchinow
President
Mongol People Group
U.S.A.
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Changing
Inner Mongolia: Pastoral Mongolian Society and the Chinese State (Oxford
Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
