China holds 23 to repression of Inner Mongolia protests

(Taipei, Taiwan) – Police in China’s Inner Mongolia region has arrested at least 23 people after the protests last week against a new policy that replaces the Mongolian language textbooks with Chinese ones in the classrooms. Push the new textbooks to be used, which began in other ethnic minority areas such as Xinjiang and Tibet in 2017, it was an ethnic Mongolian events and school boycotts to call in at least five cities and counties in Inner Mongolia. The 23 arrests were eight banners, the local word for the counties, after a count of nine local police Associated Press reports in recent days. The reasons range from “the organization and the collection of signatures for a petition” to “quarrels collection and foment trouble.” Others were and “patently a former leader of the country late to insult” “shared videos in a WeChat group to hinder the implementation of national textbook policies.” WeChat is a popular messaging in China. The local government exerts pressure in other ways. announced the Zhenglan authorities Saturday it had suspended without pay for failing to two members of the Communist Party in power to implement the policy. Police in Chifeng City, said on Monday passed through the Communist Party members, including two primary school teachers to a local disciplinary committee of the party for investigation. Information on plight has become increasingly Enghebatu Togochog said, the US director of the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center, a group of activists for the rights of Mongolia. “Before these things happened, we could relatively accurate information on WeChat groups get,” he said. “Well, it’s almost a communications blackout.” The government has increasingly positive news about politics in which most classes are taught Mandarin Chinese. “There are still many young people and middle-aged pastors who do not Mandarin for use basic communication,” he told a Q & A published daily supported by Inner Mongolia government. “This has become an obstacle individuals out of poverty, affecting the local social and economic development, and to limit an important factor for ethnic unity and harmony in our region.” Local governments have videos of students looking happy in the classroom and play on the school grounds released, saying that students returned to school. Togochog said that many people in rural areas are not sending their children back to school, according to private messages sent to his group. But he was unable to say how many. A high school students who have left the school last week with others, said a class teacher had told them to come, and he told his classmates that his parents had been threatened for their work. The AP is the source of the student’s name for security reasons. “I have a feeling that it may soon be in trouble have captured the parents of many students. I spoke, telling everyone to exist,” said the student on Sunday via a messaging application. “But I will be deleting this application. You do not hear from me.”
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