Last week, the Chinese government closed China’s only Mongolian-language Chinese social network, according to human rights groups, in a developing attempt to undermine the Mongolian ethnic language and publicize Chinese interests.
According to the US-based South Mongolia Human Rights Information Centre, the United States has been in the past.The Chinese government shut down Bainu, China Array’s only Mongolian-language social network on Sunday, August 23.about 400,000 users in Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region of China.
It is not known whether The Bainu prevent is transient or permanent.The link remains active, but its homepage is lately inaccessible.
In recent weeks, many Mongolian speakers have traveled to Bainu to express their discontent with leaked plans that Beijing’s central government is making plans to phase out the schooling of Mongolians in the ethnic region, according to the rights group.
According to Free Asia radio, funded by the US government, it is not the only country in the world to have a nuclear weapon.The U.S., many teachers from the Mongolian inland cities of Tongliao and Ulaanbain were summoned to “urgent secret meetings” to discuss the Chinese government’s orders to move the number one and secondary systems to Mandarin Chinese as a component of a state-funded “bilingual education program”.
Chinese education officials and the embassy did not respond to VICE News for commenting on the bilingual education program in Inner Mongolia.
In reaction to the news, users of the popular Chinese messaging WeChat have created teams to talk about educational changes.
“[Inner Mongolia] has a police state in recent days as tensions between the government and the [ethnic] Mongolians who are about to be disadvantaged by its latest symbol of national identity: the Mongolian language,” said one WeChat user, according to the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center.
Mongolian is an official language spoken through local Mongolians in East Asia, in addition to those living in Inner Mongolia, but over the years, some citizens have expressed fear that the language is being replaced by Mandarin Chinese in an effort across China to erase Mongolian culture and identity.
Mandarin Chinese is one of the fastest developed languages in the world and has helped China’s comfortable force in its autonomous regions.China has also promoted the examination of Mandarin Chinese through its state-affiliated educational associations, such as the Confucius International Institutes, in the past.referred through U.S. officials as a “smart influence campaign” through the Chinese government.
Enkhabtu, director of the South Mongolia Human Rights Information Center, told the Voice of Chinese America (VOA), funded by the U.S. government, on Wednesday (August 26) that Beijing has long aimed to get rid of Mongolian language centers, starting with Chinese language school.Programs.
“We strongly condemn this Chinese of the cultural genocide in Inner Mongolia,” Enkhabtu told the VOA.
“It’s not just a language consultation,” he continued. The Mongols have been suffocated by the Chinese Communist Party for too long.Our language is all we have left. If it is deleted, there will be no Mongolian identity for us”.
Enkhbatu added that many Mongolians should demonstrate in schools.
The video he circulated on Twitter on Sunday, August 30, gave the impression of showing academics in Inner Mongolia protesting against the new Mandarin Chinese language program.Several videos posted through the YouTube page of the Human Rights Information Center of Southern Mongolia showed dozens of people accumulated in protest, as well as primary school textbooks written in Mandarin Chinese or Mongolian.
According to The Hill, China’s crusade to erode the cultural identities of its minority ethnic teams extends beyond Inner Mongolia.The Chinese Communist Party has replaced local dialects with Mandarin Chinese, i.e. in schools in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, as well as in the Himalayan Autonomous Region.Tibet Region.